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...hard to see how the methods the Administration authorized for use against some of their detainees could not have violated the Geneva conventions. Common article 3 of the conventions prevents any "outrages on the personal dignity" of detainees. Among the highlights of the Administration's approved techniques: waterboarding, wherein a prisoner is made to believe he is drowning; intimidation using dogs; stripping of prisoners...
...simply living through a downturn, one of those periodic dead spots wherein the muses take a smoke break? Has the country's artistic talent been siphoned off by sexier, better-paying media with bigger audiences? (TV has been suspiciously good lately.) Or could the professionalization of "creative writing," in the form of scores of M.F.A. programs, actually be retarding the progress of contemporary literature--hammering eccentric geniuses into workshop-style conformity, then drowning them out by handing diplomas to their mediocre peers by the bushel...
...maybe more lovable books. And the Times project, having only one book on it, isn't even a list - it's not even a pantheon, it's a monotheisum. A library shouldn't be a temple, with one altar to one book. It's a mysterious, winding bazaar, wherein you should be able to wander until you stumble over some dusty, long-neglected wonder that nobody else would have spotted, and take it home with...
...Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...account of some unpleasant encounter with the president, in which he was unnecessarily hostile or dismissive, alienating or offending someone (or everyone) in the room. As with the departure of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, these are often private meetings, wherein Summers can act as unprofessionally as possible without the threat of public record or recourse. Whether asserting his belief that economists are smarter than other social scientists, or routinely disparaging members of faculty, Summers’ arrogance often got in the way of his brilliance...