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...altogether. It is unfortunate that racist incidents involved noose imagery have spiked in New York lately, but we cannot support banning an image. Indeed, such a move ignores the real problem: the hatred that motivates a person to use such an image. Outlawing the noose may allow New Yorker legislators to feel as if they have dealt a mortal blow to racism, but in reality they have merely put it on the back burner. Our country cannot overcome racism by passing meaningless laws, only by encouraging dialog and cooperation across racial lines. Still, the most frightening consequence of this bill...
Bulimia, tofu, and Anne Frank are among the disparate subjects up for discussion in “Cleopatra’s Nose,” a collection of 20 years of Judith Thurman’s writing. In these diverse essays, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Thurman explores several “varieties of desire.” She centers her analysis loosely around a simple question: why do people—particularly artists, but others as well—choose the paths they do? Though the collection is necessarily a bit incoherent, Thurman?...
...Washington press corps' handling of the prewar debate. Old pros who thought they were immune to spin are feeling particularly bruised by criticism of their coverage. So when subjects like the possibility of war with Iran arise, the questioning gets aggressive. After a recent story in the New Yorker suggested that Bush is considering an attack on Iran, reporters hammered Perino. Cornered, she repeated, "We are pursuing a diplomatic solution in Iran," over and over until another reporter broke in to save her with a question on Russia...
...drenched in sweat, completely soaked, after only mile one, and that is very unusual," said Emily Schuster, 25, a New Yorker who had trained for the event since June. "And then somebody collapsed before the halfway point, before even mile 13, and I thought: 'OK, it must be hot, they must be old.' But then at mile 15, there's a stretch where you turn into the sun and run for several miles, and people started dropping like flies. Older, younger, men, women -every couple of steps you saw someone collapsing with ice on their head...
...White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The bottom line is that we do not use torture." When Congress and the White House battled over detainee rights in 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private memos sent to the U.S. government by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) asserting that U.S. interrogation techniques were "tantamount to torture", President Bush said curtly, "We don't torture...