Word: wonders
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...really for him and not the kids [May 28]. Tex Avery's cartoons (starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig) and many other cartoons of the 1930s and '40s include jokes that kids don't have the cultural experience to understand. Shrek is the same. Do kids still need wonder and magic? Of course they do. Do they need classic stories turned into happily-ever-after tripe that doesn't even resemble the original? Absolutely not. Poniewozik only alluded to the fact that the Grimm brothers' fairy tales were originally quite grim and scary. So where can we find healthful...
...Premier League, National Basketball Association and National Football League [May 21]. The salaries of top players are augmented the same way. The majority of us would take a lifetime to make the amount of money these players earn in just one week. It is truly astonishing. I wonder whether they deserve such large sums. Wouldn't the money be better spent combatting poverty, global warming, aids? The list goes on and on. Lee Boon Siew, Kuala Lumpur...
...read with interest Joe Klein's "There's Good News from Iraq" [June 4]. I can't help wondering if the American media are finally starting to notice what we who live and work in Baghdad have known for quite some time: that what we are doing is working. In fact, we have had many successes since 2003, and we continue to go forward with our mission. I wonder when the pundits and politicians will apologize to the American people for being so wrong-headed and defeatist. More important, when will the same folks apologize to those of us here...
...Little wonder, then, that Yuma is a tad giddy these days. "Bill Gates isn't coming out here to open a Microsoft plant, so we have to use what we have," says Doug Sanderson, Yuma's city manager. "The ethanol operations are a good synergy with our corn, water, waste treatment, hardworking people, our transportation. It's a good...
With good reason, black faculty, staff, and students wonder whether our efforts to meet the highest standards and our human flaws will receive the same benefit of the doubt as do white people’s equally successful or equally flawed efforts. Indeed, no matter what we wear or how we act, others’ misrecognition remains, for us, a threat not only to comfort but also to life and limb...