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...couldn't help wondering. She did everything she was supposed to. She has a mental attitude so positive, you could sell shares in it and retire. She runs at least five miles several times a week and had regular tests and scans. This just feels all wrong...
...writer steals from him- or herself, something quite different is going on. This kind of revisiting is a way for older writers to make contact with their younger selves across the abyss of time--to engage themselves in conversation, to argue over what they missed and what they got wrong and, above all, to register the ways that time has altered their understanding of the world--to get, by means of triangulation, some perspective on the years that separate them. By going over old ground, these old masters aren't just looking back. They are annexing new territory...
...Race" that whites who vote against Obama do so for racial reasons [Oct. 20]. Obviously race influences some voters, but what about blacks? Certainly some African Americans will vote for Obama because he is black. How many of these voters will cancel out white voters who vote for the wrong reasons? James C. Perley, LITTLE SIOUX, IOWA...
...conditions by proclaiming, “You don’t say that out loud.” Similarly, Mr. McCain, “whip his you-know-what” is not something that a president would say. Not only is it vulgar, but it also conveys the wrong message about American hegemony. The American president is exceptional; he, or she, is supposed to have the advantage. Like my football coach used to say, “act like you’ve been there.”In the actual debate McCain exhibited the same uncontrolled behavior. While...
...tradition still remains integral to Harvard dress today. But the disparity between Harvard style and the normal get-up of sweatshirts and jeans sported on other college campuses makes me wonder: are Harvard guys an anomaly, distinct from the everyday college male elsewhere? Don’t get me wrong. I love the occasional tweed jacket and corduroy pant, and bowties tickle my fancy. But suspenders and pocket squares, horn-rimmed glasses and woven belts—surely classifiable as the “sundry haberdashery” that a 1926 article refers to—seem...