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If I could rank categories of non fiction, and I will now attempt to do so, movie reviews and sports writing would be at the top, with food and technical writing at the bottom, and everything else vying for position in-between. The ability to succinctly sum

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Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Book reviews: Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell: 1 of 4

Why do certain people succeed? Why do some rise above others? What makes them, in effect, outliers, unique and distant from the masses? These are the questions Malcolm Gladwell hopes to answer in his new book "Outliers: The Story of Success." Gladwell, the erudite New Yorker staff writer, has become familiar to many. His fir...
Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Biography: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: 1 of 2

Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer whose body of work ranks him as one of the greatest modern writers. Born in 1912 in Indianapolis he attended Cornell University for two years where he majored in biochemistry. He then enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) before enlisting in the...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Virginia Tech school shooting: 59 of 89

Ever since the horrific shooting of 33 students at Virginia Tech the news media has monitored the college's progress very closely. The questions have been asked: will the VT students be able to pick up the pieces and move on? What will their transition into the working world like? Recently a report was released showing how v...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: The Minneapolis bridge collapse (08/01/07): 30 of 41

President Bush dismissed today raising the federal gas tax to repair the nation's bridges citing fiscal responsibility. "The way it seems to have worked is that each member on that (Transportation) committee gets to set his or her own priorities first," Bush said. "That's not the right way to prioritize the people's money. B...
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections A new (true?) conservative Republican candidate for the 2008 US presidential election: Fred Dalton Thompson: 4 of 5

Any time a candidate with acting experience and conservative credentials maneuvers to run for president you can bet the conservative base begins to tingle with excitement. Such is the case with former "Law and Order" star Fred Thompson, who formed a presidential exploratory committee yesterday sending the right-wing abuzz. T...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Quantum of Solace: 11 of 12

Rule one: Always kill the assassin first. There's a scene early in the latest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, where our hero is ready to interrogate a prisoner. He's in the room with M, his boss, M's bodyguard Mitchell, and a token extra guy standing off to the side. Suddenly, it turns out Mitchell is a double. He pulls...