| Feelings of guilt by association
Like so many Americans, I was glued to the television Monday, watching horrifying images of wounded students at Virginia Tech as the day unfolded. But I grew even more troubled when I heard the first reports that the shooter might be Asian.
Here we go again, I thought. My wife and I watched nervously, desperately hoping that he would not turn out to be Korean or Korean-American. When the media speculated that he was from China, I must admit to some relief. To my dismay, police confirmed that he was Korean-American. His name was Cho Seung-Hui.
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Morgan's the One!
Of writing royalty and royalties: From "The Queen" to "The Last King of Scotland" to the imperial presidency of Richard M. Nixon, writer/raconteur Peter Morgan courts jesters and palace potentates with the aplomb of an insider with insight. On a filmic first-name basis with Queen Elizabeth and "Idiot" Amin -- two real-life "regals" who captured Oscars just two months ago for the actors who portrayed them -- Morgan more than manages to move regally, majestically, gliding gracefully onto the Great White Way with an acclaimed play that has given double-sided significance to the acclamation: Nixon's the one! "Frost/Nixon," opening this Sunday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway, uses "tale of the tapes" as a terrific measure of the tail ends of two formidable careers of opportunistic opponents preparing a bout that would buffet America around as a reminder of the sport that was Watergate in the 1970s.
Samson as Suicide Bomber
The Victoria Philharmonic Choir delivered a spirited, rich and lush performance of Simon Capet's provocative interpretation of Handel's Samson Thursday night, and the evening concluded with a hearty and well-deserved standing ovation. The orchestra acquitted itself splendidly. Lead tenor Ken Lavigne, in the role of Samson, was spellbinding. Everything went off without a hitch. The only evidence that there had been anything unusual about the event was the Victoria Police squad car that had been parked in front of the McPherson Theatre when the doors opened. And later, when the audience filtered back out onto Pandora Street, there was a local television news crew on hand. Still, in the comfortable, ornate, and almost antique setting of the McPherson Playhouse, just three blocks from the oldest synagogue in Canada, in the middle of Passover, there were some of us in the audience who could not help but notice that what we were watching onstage was something more than just vaguely obscene.
The 'undisputed leader' among students of children
A pioneer in exploring the history of children, Paula Fass began to examine American culture as a child herself. Today, she leads Berkeley students in considering this population once overlooked by historians By Cathy Cockrell, Public Affairs | 18 April 2007 In her popular courses and seminars, Professor Paula Fass encourages students to dig beneath the "topsoil" of American history. Political speeches and public proclamations, landmark laws and policies figure prominently in her reading assignments, to be sure. But the aspect of "history" she's most passionate about is the lived experience of children and how they figure in our collective imagination thus her extensive historical research on such themes as child discipline, immigrant parents' views on schooling, and childrearing-advice literature.
‘Pop’ goes our movement
In a world where the death of a third-rate, largely unremarkable actress gets more attention and TV time than a war in Afghanistan or genocide in Sudan, it’s impossible to overstate the power of popular culture in American society. The gluttonous coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s accidental overdose — as well as her autopsy and baby-daddy-drama — was temporarily threatened as America’s top never-ending news story when radio shock jock Don Imus called members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team "some nappy-headed hos." Had Virginia Tech not tragically experienced the deadliest school massacre in our country’s history, there’s no telling how long the What-Does-Imus-Say-About-Us-As-Americans media marathon would have continued.
HarperCollins on board with Sharkey
Lisa Sharkey, the former "Good Morning America" producer selected by HarperCollins to fill the shoes of Judith Regan, has tapped several editors from Regan's former imprint to join her staff. ReganBooks longtimers Maureen O'Brien and Doug Grad were named executive editor and senior editor, respectively, of HarperCollins' Creative Development Team, headed by Sharkey. Also named was editor Matt Harper, who reports to Sharkey, and associate editor Stephanie Fraser, who reports to O'Brien and Grad. In the wake of Regan's acrimonious departure from HarperCollins, the publisher shuttered her West Coast publishing operation and offered jobs to many of her former employees in New York. HarperCollins tapped Sharkey to head its newly created Creative Development Team to aggressively chase pop-culture and ripped-from-the-headlines tomes to farm out to various HarperCollins imprints.
Corpus Christi Texas Vacation
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