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...Robinson is among the superpowered. She moves easily in and out of minds that to a lesser writer would be solid and opaque, evoking their smallest, most intricate emotions with master-level eloquence. But at heart, Home is Jack's book, or it should be, and therein lies the problem. He's charming enough--God knows what the Boughton family did for the 20 years he was gone, since he's the only one in the house who can make a proper joke. He just isn't quite real. It's impossible to locate in Jack the anger and lust...
There are grand things in Home. Perfect things, even. The way that Gilead is both idyll and prison to Glory, the birthplace of all her hopes and their tomb. Robert's long, ungraceful dive into death--"Jesus never had to be old," he complains. But the problem of Jack leaves a slackness at the heart of the book, and Robinson never takes it in. Two-thirds of the way through, you're desperate for Jack and Glory to fall into bed together, even if they are brother and sister, just as a gesture of Christian charity toward a reader starved...
...high value in dollars," says Bruce Pyenson, an actuary at health consultants Milliman. "But it's not enough for you to stop saving." He says your savings goal, if you are healthy, should be 10 times your final salary, and significantly more if you suffer a chronic health problem such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes...
...There’s a problem with all of this high-handed indignation, however: Though it may be right, it’s beside the point. It’s fair to assume that a future of Western golf hegemony was not on LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens’ mind when she was developing the English-only regulation. The unfortunate fact is that the LPGA—like all professional sports—is a business...
...This single-minded focus on business, however, is precisely the problem. It is what led to the English-only rule, and there is no guarantee it won’t result in equally reprehensible policies in the future. There’s no doubt that the rule was misguided. But its source was neither xenophobia toward Asian players, nor a Western superiority complex, as commentators have claimed. It was desperation. The challenge for the LPGA now is to make sure that the green on the course doesn’t play second fiddle to the green in the bank...