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OAKLAND, CA, USA - Many thanks to Stanford University Hoover Institute Fellow Shelby Steele. It is because of him that I now know the civil rights movement is over. According to Mr. Steele, we won. Nobody bothered to send me that e-mail.

I know now because our Esteemed Editor took it upon himself to hip me to the recent effort by Mr. Steele in the pages of Harper's. I'm glad to have read it because, being a brother who has to work for a living, I am not always able to keep up with the happenings among the Ivory Tower circle that the old folks used to call "the talented tenth"...MORE



by BRETT HARRISON

PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA - "Punch Drunk Love" answers the question "What would happen if Adam Sandler, arguably one of biggest mouths in movies, were asked to keep his big fat trap shut?" The answer is that Sandler, when forced to rein in his usual mugging and frat party slapstick, is capable of giving a truly memorable performance.

Not that he wasn't just fine in "The Wedding Singer", my personal favorite of the Sandler oeuvre. And even in his worst efforts he seems to possess a kind of rakish charm. But here he displays a range and depth that I did not think he was capable of....MORE





by ROD AMIS

NEW ORLEANS - 24 October, 2002: During this last two weeks, I have a taken what I've come to think of as my "Day of Nonexistence." It is a day during which, as far as the outside world is concerned, I am simply no longer there. The practice is a self-indulgence that I have missed over the past year and half since returning from Europe. It is my little slice of time alone with my silence and my thoughts.

I don't read e-mail or answer a telephone. As far as functionally possible, I do not see or speak to anyone. I enjoyed this luxury so much last week, that I decided this morning to take it again.

I began the day reading the latest Harper's magazine, kindly lent me by my friend Scott. I'm finding Scott a bit of an enigma, of late, because the course of his conversations - even beyond that jocular and gravelly voice that I've said makes him sound profound (even when he is not) - belie the types of material I know him to ingest. As an example of what I mean, I'll share with you this one marvelous mot from Lewis Lapham (Harper's editor's) latest essay...MORE



by STUART ALTMAN

NEW YORK, NY, USA - Now that Congress has given President Bush the go ahead on Iraq all that remains is choosing up sides. Not that I am biased, but those two sides will be:

1. Bush's Pro-Democracy Freedom Loving Nations team or
2. Saddam's Terrorist Weapons of Mass Destruction and I'll Damn Well Use Them team.

Some of these nations keep hoping that the U.N. can order Saddam into a peaceful agreement. However this ignore's one big fact: Saddam is a dictator. Dictators by their very definition don't take orders. If Saddam were a fast food worker his greeting would be "Hi, my name is Saddam, welcome to McDonalds, can you take my order?"...MORE

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