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...first-time offenders like Lou, folks who seem to have forgotten how to take a time-out. There are no solid figures on how popular the courses have become, but six were given last month just for those in the New York City criminal-justice system--roughly double the number for the same period last year. (Each class has about 20 students.) Several other courses were held throughout the city by therapists and the new breed of anger consultants...
Fortunately for Gore, he was able to duck the question on the ground that he couldn't comment on an active lawsuit. If Gore had wanted to be mean, he might have asked how many stock options his interrogator had and whether that number had any impact on his decision to come to work every day. The human capacity for grievance is deep and universal. Even among these most rational members of the species, grievance seems immune to the reality that "unfair to Microsoft" is the world's least sympathetic cri de coeur, even if it's true...
...took a number of years to decide to collect pictures like this," says Allen. "They're too painful to look at. But once you've seen these, you can't talk about race without factoring in the reality of what African Americans really went through." With his companion John Littlefield, Allen eventually assembled a collection of more than 130 lynching photographs, which are now on loan to Emory University in Atlanta. Earlier this year, during the first full public showing of the collection, lines formed every day outside the Roth Horowitz gallery in New York City. (The pictures...
That book's modernist style was not everyone's cup of Darjeeling. Like Ulysses or the Upanishad, Satanic Verses remains more read about than read. The new wavelet of young writers with ties to the subcontinent should be more welcoming to an American public, which includes an increasing number of residents from that region. "There's a very highly educated second generation of readers within that community," notes Pankaj Mishra, 31, who lives in Mashobra and is the author of The Romantics (Random House; 260 pages...
...mounts, she is forced to call the police, move out of her apartment and finally change her name and her life. But there's never a cry for pity, a whiff of the self-righteous. When her ditsy secretary confesses that it was she who gave Tony her home number, Theresa offers the expected pat of sympathy--"Thank you for telling me. I know that was hard to do." Then she fires...