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...Only in world-historical times such as these would seven different comicbook projects on the same topic, all coming out simultaneously, not be considered in competition with one another. Instead, because all the books focus on the events of September 11, and all their profits go to charity, their release over the past few weeks represents an unprecedented, unifying event for the comicbook industry and the nation. They provide a way to feel better and to do good...
...starter marriage," a union between those in their 20s and early 30s who marry for five years or less and divorce without having kids. Author Pamela Paul, whose first marriage failed within a year, is a little short on hard evidence, since no statistics exist on the topic. She based her conclusions on interviews with 60 couples who have experienced short-lived unions, as well as polls of young people's attitudes toward marriage. Even those whose parents stayed together, she contends, were affected by the upheaval in families around them. "Now they're searching for the stability they lacked...
...topic for his Harvard club speech was “the role of universities in the new global economy...
Nozick turned to political philosophy for the first time in 1971, when he delivered several talks on the topic at Harvard as a guest lecturer. Shortly after giving the lectures, Nozick later recalled, Rawls’ Theory of Justice arrived in his mailbox, and soon after he prepared his own rejoinder—which culminated three years later in Anarchy, State, and Utopia...
When a high school student in New Jersey challenges you on a topic that used to be the province of specialists, you sit up and take notice. "I'm against free trade," said the student, in a class I taught this month, and I think I know why. Like many others among the idealistic young, he's convinced that free trade diminishes the standard of living of those in the developing world. On campuses throughout the U.S., that has become the conventional wisdom: free trade, which is the motor of globalization, drives down wages, promotes sweatshop and child labor...