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News of King's crowning met with predictable sneers from the literary snobs, along with a few weak and equally predictable cheers from the reverse snobs. But both sides are kind of missing the point, which is that we--that is, we readers--have an odd and deeply ingrained habit of dividing books into two mutually exclusive heaps, one high and literary and one low and trashy, and we should stop it. Books aren't high or low. They're just good...
...pack suitable for bringing a Game Boy surreptitiously to school ($98) and a C-print crusher hat ($68) that looks just like Mom's. Why cater to kids? David Lockwood, a manager at Mintel, a Chicago-based consumer-market researcher, says that while the overall clothing market has been weak, children's apparel is a $28 billion market in the U.S. that has experienced nearly continuous growth since 1998. --By Jean Chatzky
...intensity in practices have been a whole lot greater than it was last year,” Mulkey said. “Not to say that they were weak last season, but training is now even harder. And when you’re thinking about winning first place at year’s end, you can tell that people want it a lot more—and it’s perfectly attainable...
Leon Neyfakh’s review panning the French Kicks was aimlessly abrasive at best (Arts, Oct. 17). Although Neyfakh desperately tries to disparage the French Kicks with dramatic one liners (“the French Kicks are nobodies”) and weak wit (“the Kicks’ll be getting the boot faster than you can say ‘au revoir’”), his critique reads as though his vendetta is personal...
...also has been shutout by Brown, and held to a pair of early scores by a weak Princeton team. The primary reason is the composition of the forward lines, which have taken three major hits since a year...