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...populations to the New World and their adaptation to its opportunities and frustrations objectively. To a large extent, he succeeds, for what he sacrifices in passion and fury, he compensates with the conviction of his honesty. What his narrative loses in style and wit--Sowell's is a turgid, textbook monotone--he gains in clarity and precision. "The history of American ethnic groups," says Sowell, "is the history of a complex aggregate of complex groups and individuals. It cannot be a simple morality play." He seeks to explain events from their causes, not to fit them into an ideological pattern...
...College textbook prices have risen by about 40 per cent over the past four years and "there's no question" that they will continue to rise at the same rate, Garis Distelhorse, executive director of the National Association of College Stores, said recently...
...Coop has not made any extra profits because of the increases, de Lellis said, adding that the store actually takes a slight loss in the textbook department each year because of overhead costs...
...future, more publishers may begin leaving suggested retail prices off textbook, allowing retailers to hike prices even more, deLellis said. (The Coop currently sells its texts at publisher's suggested prices, Argeros said...
Grief is often most eloquent when understated. Author David Plante's seventh novel is a textbook example of such successful reticence. Its narrator, Daniel Francoeur, is a writer living in London; he pays three visits to his aging parents in Providence, the last of them on the occasion of his father's funeral. Standing beside the coffin with his six brothers, Daniel finds himself weeping: "Then, with a little jolt, I felt that I was being dramatic, and my sobbing stopped...