Word: todays
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...polar expeditions. A glance at the New York Times Book Review bestseller list for nonfiction reveals that biographies take up a large share of the popular market. Regardless of what the domination of Harry Potter books on the fiction bestseller list might indicate about the typical reader of today, just as interesting is the number of biographies on the nonfiction list. Of the top 15 bestsellers last week, only two non-fiction books can be classified as having no biographical content or slant whatsoever...
...pedestrian as book-buyers' motivations may seem, the recent proliferation of biographies shows that biographers today are indeed playing with the conception of biography as a genre. In Sarte's novel, Roquentin's struggles with this problem led him to abandon his biography. Those who persevere and finish a biography have made many choices along the way that are vital in determining what sort of biography will emerge. These questions can be divided into two categories: how the author obtains and interprets the sources concerning the subject, and exactly how the subject is defined...
...Campaign officials for both Bush and McCain said they were generally pleased with how their candidates fared in the debate. Forbes' representatives were reluctant to talk about their candidate's performance, and instead emphasized today's endorsement by New Hampshire's most influential conservative newspaper, The Union Leader...
...course, despite the popularity of the straight-to-startup route, investment banks are still deluged with applications from eager college seniors. Analysts spend several hours a week interviewing and reading resumes, mostly from their own schools. Today Shemmer spends three hours in the late afternoon interviewing candidates--this week it's Yale...
...good." To examine the play and find it intentionally, harmfully stereotypical is not just a difference of opinion, it's a misinterpretation of the authors' intent. "West Side" is a timeless story, whether it's set in 16th-century Verona, 1950's New York or any modern city today...