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...black, exotically gnarled cigar and sips of espresso, seated in his handsome living room in a far-from-exotic part of south London, Self unravels the route connecting revealed religion, the mutability of language and the crisis in masculinity in The Book of Dave. "Here we are in an era where monotheistic fundamentalists of all stripes are claiming a literal truth for their scriptures. Whereas in fact these texts are a function of state formation and their content is kind of irrelevant to the uses made of them ? I wanted to imagine how a religion founded on any old nonsense...
...being conventional wisdom in the rest of the country tomorrow." Berkeley, after all, was the first city to start curbside recycling, ban Styrofoam and desegregate its public schools without a court order. Berkeley also took the lead in calling for municipalities to divest from South Africa during the apartheid era...
...After less than a year as Vice President, TR found himself the youngest President in American history, after President William McKinley was assassinated at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. As Mark Hanna, the leading Republican politician of the era lamented, "Now look - that damn cowboy is president...
...carefully but effectively to dramatically increase the role of America in World Affairs. Finally, combining his sense of American patriotism and morality with his awareness of the power of technology and a growing national economy TR understood that government had to be dramatically modernized. He helped launch the Progressive Era, and reforms like the Pure Food and Drug Act dramatically improved America's ability to provide a better life within a regulated market which had to meet minimum standards of public health and safety...
...DIED. Vincent Sherman, 99, gifted studio-era director and lothario famous less for his films than for the luminous, gritty performances he elicited, especially from women; in Los Angeles. Known for his affairs with Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis, he juggled the egos of rivals Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance and pressed a skeptical Ida Lupino to abandon makeup to play a pushy older sister in the bleak 1943 drama The Hard Way?a film that won Lupino accolades. "My strong points were my relationships with the actors," Sherman said. "My weak points were accepting assignments when...