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...wanted the Knot to deal with the stuff that traditional media companies wouldn't touch. They would never write about a Jewish girl bringing home a Jamaican boyfriend because they couldn't sell to ad agencies with an article like that. But the American wedding was changing. It was interfaith, intercultural, same-sex, plagued with family problems. Our brand said, Your best friends just planned a wedding, and they'll give you the inside scoop. It was an edgy attitude toward a category that had been staid for so long...
...seems that as long as we have our morning cup of coffee, iTunes and the latest high-tech cell phone, then all is well. These are the values we ourselves embrace and teach our children. Who cares about politics and civil rights as long as you have the best stuff? Nancy Levy, Long Beach, Calif...
...dunno. Maybe it sounds better in PowerPoint. Or maybe he's saving the good stuff for paying customers...
...favoritism in decisions of government officials (115th) and business impact of malaria (113th), but on some more sophisticated metrics it does quite well--eighth for legal rights tied to the financial markets and 31st for quality of scientific-research institutions. Skipping the basics while nailing the more complicated stuff is a counterintuitive yet increasingly widespread trend--think of the places in Africa that leaped from no phones to cell phones, bypassing landlines--but whether a country can excel in the long run without a more stable foundation is another question...
...reasonable equipoise, a relaxed uprightness of cultural carriage, is with us only some of the time. Jingoism still disfigures the lowbrow end of our journalism. "One of the ways in which we have matured is that we don't give a stuff about what other people think," blustered one such "cultural" columnist, Susan Mitchell, in the Australian, a national daily, last month. "We no longer feel we have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves...