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...this point Salinger had a general destination in mind: he wanted to be a writer. In the fall of 1939, he signed up for a writing class at Columbia University taught by Whit Burnett, founder and editor of Story, a highly regarded, little magazine that had been the first place to publish William Saroyan, Joseph Heller and Carson McCullers. Burnett quickly took notice of his talented pupil and made sure that his magazine would be the first place to publish Salinger. In its March-April 1940 issue, Story carried "The Young Folks," a brief, acidic vignette of college students...
...problem with this kind of statistical fetishism is not the craven dishonesty. Lieberman does not care a whit about the national debt, of course, but political disingenuousness is too common to provoke real outrage. The danger lies in the systemic politeness that allows it to fester. Politicians who embrace this amoralism deserve rebuke from their leaders, not the nonchalance with which the Democratic leadership met Lieberman’s actions. And those like Grayson who challenge it deserve better than to hear their moral seriousness condemned as madness...
...aisle to vote for the Medicare Prescription Drug Program in 2005. "I think the sheer act of passing it with Democratic-only votes would result in significant backlash, not just from Republicans - though clearly it would gin up Republican intensity - but I suspect from independents as well," says Whit Ayers, a GOP strategist...
...from working as a system of checks and balances, quite often do the opposite." But there is more passion than reasoned argument here. Urbanization, for example, may be destroying rural communities, but it also liberates people from the appalling restrictions of village life. Roy couldn't care a whit for such subtleties - yet to fault her for that is to miss the point of a polemic. She demands an emotive response to the horrible injustices that go largely unnoticed in a world distracted by images of cricket gods, Bollywood glamour and Nano cars. In language of terrible beauty, she takes...
...Both sides say they have been consistent in their reasons for pursuing the case, and that the other side is mischaracterizing their intentions. A spokesman for AIG says, "We have not changed a whit our determination to restore to the trust that which was wrongfully taken from it." In this whole disagreement, of course, one thing is certain: There are likely to be some fireworks when this case begins on Monday...