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...these vacuous debates serve as repeated reminders that we still have a lot of folly to endure. At this point, we know the basics, the talking points, the boats. Now, all that’s left for the candidates to do is bash Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)—and even that’s getting...
...young people total and just 33 percent of college students have a landline telephone,” Fisher said. “A lot more young people have the Internet.” According to the survey, likely Democratic voters with a landline favored Sen. Hillary R. Clinton (D-NY) by a five-point margin, while Obama led by 13 percentage points among those without land lines. This margin casts doubt on numbers released by other national polls of the same demographic, conducted over the telephone, which show Clinton leading the pack. The poll, however, does indicate reluctance among young...
...Chloe Does Yale,” which chronicles the exploits of an insecure, surprisingly unintelligent sex columnist at Yale. Reviewers lauded the book as “too meager, too infernally moronic, for a grand denunciation” (Yale Herald) and “surprisingly dull” (NY Sun). (I’ve read it; it really is quite bad.) Harvard’s class of 2004 featured Uzodinma Iweala, whose first novel “Beasts of No Nation” was also published in 2005. The London Times called Iweala “a confident and promising...
...come a barrage of legislation targeted at keeping games like “Halo 3” out of the hands of impressionable youngsters. At the end of August several politicians spoke out about halting the sale of ultra-violent video games to minors. Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY) even claims that legislating against video games is a top priority for his state.In arguing their case, most proponents of a ban on violent games draw parallels with pornography and sexually violent images. Supposedly, too much gaming persuades more kids to go on killing sprees. State Senator Leland...