Musings on education, literature, politics, media, and cultural trends by Laura Nathan. View Laura's profile.
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Many of us go to a lot of effort to make sure we get the recommended five fresh fruits and vegetables a day in our diets. Now that french fries have been classified as a fresh vegetable, it should be even easier to do t… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Friday, June 18, 2004 |
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Watching CNN interview the sister and son of Paul Johnson, the American being held hostage in Saudi Arabia, I couldn’t help but feel as if I was watching a somewhat trashy talk show. Sure, there were no fist… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
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Thanks to the Bush administration’s censorship of images of coffins returning from Iraq and the media’s tendency to treat victims of Iraqi casualties as statistics — or names, at best — our relationship to the war in Ir… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Saturday, June 12, 2004 |
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The success of Morgan Spurlock’s film Super Size Me has undoubtedly scared McDonald’s executives. Even before the film was releas… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Wednesday, June 9, 2004 |
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A man apologizes for turning his back on true love. A woman apologizes for having an affair with a married man. Someone else apologizes for embezzlement. Yet another apologizes for ever being born.From the s… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Friday, June 4, 2004 |
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Arts and crafts were always one of my favorite things when I was younger. I’m wondering, though, whether we made a mistake by not making arts and crafts mandatory for people throughout their lives, particularly people w… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 |
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As Frank Rich so eloquently explains in “It Was the Porn that Made Them Do It” in The New York Times today, we can’t keep… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Saturday, May 29, 2004 |
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As far as I’m concerned, there are at least three kinds of SPAM email these days. One is the “get a larger penis/larger breasts/you’ve won the lottery” kind of spam sent to everyone with an email address. The second t… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
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Perhaps MTV executives took a hint from Chang Liu’s piece, “Where multiculturalism gets airbrushed,” because yesterday the entertainment magnate announced that it wil… |
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By Laura Nathan
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
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