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...Times Sunday Book Review. Unlike the usual stuff of newspapers, which people read on Monday and by Sunday have moved on from, your article has had unusual staying power. In fact, it has remained with me, it has haunted me, until today—for six years of my total of 20, about a third of my lifetime! But today, today, I am going to exorcise your ghostly grip.You see, in the article that you wrote so many years ago, you put forth a claim that has bothered me, a self-identifying reader (and sometimes, in my more self-indulgent...
...Oslo Olympics. She won the giant slalom, but it's her slalom victory that still amazes me today. In her first run, she missed a gate and had to backtrack to go through. She finished that run in fourth place. Yet her second run was so spectacular that her total time was good enough for a second gold medal, making her the first female skier to win two golds at the same Olympics. And she remains the only American female skier to have done so. Eight years later, at the Squaw Valley Olympics, she became the first woman in Olympic...
...York Times Co.—The Globe’s parent company—threatened to close the Boston newspaper if The Globe’s unions did not agree to a decrease in pay and the end of company contributions to pensions, which would total $20 million. The announcement comes as newspapers across the country have announced cutbacks, buyout programs, and closures in response to plummeting print advertising revenue. But many students said they did not think they would be affected if The Globe were shuttered. “I don’t read The Boston Globe...
...opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.” Given our intense generational ADD, this has become something of a hurdle. Unlike actual conversation, texts, Gchats, Tweets, wallposts, and e-mails are things you can simply wander off and ignore with total impunity. Our generation likes that. We don’t want to be trapped listening to you explain fiscal policy when we could be watching a video of a cat running into a wall...
...March when Kenya agreed to try suspected pirates in its courts. That, experts said, would provide a deterrent and at least impose some sense of rule of law off Somalia's coasts. Yet the threat of arrest has done nothing to dissuade the pirates. "Not even 0.2% of the total pirates are arrested, so anybody who is at all intelligent can understand that arrest does not bring fear," says Maryam Jama, a pirate recruiter in Bossaso. "If you get arrested, in prison the others will say, 'Do not worry, you will be out and then hijack another ship with good...