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Quindlen, writing in The New York Times, opined that "one reason the childcare employment pool may include so many foreign workers is that in many other countries the care of children is an honorable profession. In America, it is scut work." A reader might be inclined to believe that there are hordes of immigrants whose sole function is to provide affordable childcare for middle-class American women...
...unless fuel was spilled, and that on the actual day the explosion was sparked by a broken headlamp anyway. The producers were so taken with this reasoning that they forgot the basic question, Is it fair? The essential contract is not with any source or expert, but with the reader or viewer, who is entitled to the facts to judge for himself...
Conspicuously, most of the article dwells on the quality of these nefarious publications rather than, as any competent reader would expect, the actual investment these publications have in race relations and multiculturalism...
...behind her, as I should have let her do years ago." Years ago and books ago. Brookner has built a reputation as Britain's foremost novelist of sensibility. Her books are true to their subjects and scrupulously written. But there comes a time when rebellion flares in the reader, who knows by now that it will take the daughter the entire narrative to escape. Her course will be unmarked by episode, and like many other Brookner creatures, she will not be pushed by the need for money. Fraud is less a novel than an examination of literary conscience...
...long-time and regular reader of the Crimson, I was disgusted and disappointed by your decision to publish the cartoon on page two of your January 8th issue. Comments which I have heard from others, students and staff alike, suggest that a large majority of this community were offended and angry about the cartoon. I understand that your piece was intended as a response to material in another publication, The Rag. Unfortunately this was not clear and the nature of your response was extremely offensive without any redeeming qualities of humor or social criticism...