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...surprise that the Swedish Academy awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for literature to a Frenchman, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. After all, Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Academy, noted just recently that Europe is “the center of the literary world?? and claimed that American writers are far too insular, brainwashed by their own cannibalizing pop culture to produce any literature worthy of the Nobel Prize. Not since Toni Morrison nabbed the honor in 1993, it seems, has an author from our shores been able to extricate...
...colonial history echoed a desire to spread French culture—and not just French power—around the globe. That French-language citizens of former colonies might hesitate to pledge allegiance to France would surely disturb many proud readers (like Sarkozy). Yet the nature of the Francophone world??and our entire world today—is such that multicultural immersion often trumps mere linguistic links...
...realities—that, oftentimes, the poor are rendered mute and immobile under the drone of helicopters and the careerist caution of legislators.But still I wonder. Since that debate, Palin has gone on the attack. For example, though Obama calls America “the greatest country in the world?? so often you wonder if there’s a string coming out of his back, Palin told donors in Colorado: “Our opponent…is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around...
...passage of the deal is another case where a powerful ethnic lobby—perhaps along with some romantic notions about supporting the world??s most populous democracy—caused yet another foreign policy blunder. Since the Bush administration first negotiated the agreement in 2005, the Indian-American community has organized heavily in order to guarantee its passage. As The New York Times reported in 2006, “Indian-Americans, as well as the Indian government in some cases, have invested heavily in proven political tools that have helped previous immigrant groups break into American politics?...
...provided funding for Harvard’s Center for the Environment, which is currently hosting the “Future of Energy” speaker series. Bank of America is also constructing a 54-story high rise in Bryant Park that is striving to be one of the world??s most environmentally responsible office buildings In addition to financial and environmental concerns by the protesters, other activist groups, such as City Life/Vida Urbana, also accused Bank of America of contributing to the steady rise in homelessness in the Boston area by evicting families who fall behind on mortgage...