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Provides non-partisan review of the week’s most important news, plus coverage of the arts (theatre, film, books, and music), business, health and science, TV highlights, and even notable (and outrageous) real estate.

The Week’s motto:
“All you need to know about everything that matters.”

(I don’t work for them, so not to sound overly pluggy, but The Week is seriously the best weekly news magazine I have ever read and the only one I have ever been able to read front to back. And if I weren’t mooching it as the second-read off my mother who already subscribes, I would so ask for it for Christmas.)

In The Week (December 8, 2006):
“Sacha Baron Cohen is a product of the Holocaust, says Neil Strauss in Rolling Stone. The grandson of a Holocaust surivivor, the British comedian is a devout Jew who keeps kosher and observes the Sabbath. But as the faux Kazakh journalist Borat in the hit movie fo the same name, he’s wildly, even absurdly anti-Semitic—making some viewers and the Anti-Defamation League wonder if he’s taken the joke too far. Not so, says Baron Cohen. “Borat essentially works as a tool,” he says. “By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice.” Baron Cohen first plumbed that prejudice when he led a laughing, raucous crowd at a bar in Tucson in singing “Throw the Jew Down the Well” for a famous segment on this TV show. He found that the audience’s enthusiastic rendering of the chorus spoke volumes. “Did it reveal that they were anti-Semitic? Perhaps. But maybe it just revealed that they were indifferent to anti-Semitism.” That, he says, is a lesson that needs remembering. “When I was in university, there was this major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, who said, ‘The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.’ I know it’s not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but it’s an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.”

http://raymanzone.us.ubi.com/hall_of_fame.php

Get the game, play through story mode, then go to the above website, create an account, play score mode, and start entering in your high score codes.

Personally, though, I would advise keeping a paper list of them (with the score, time or points) and checking those against the Hall of Fame list for particular mini-games BEFORE entering, since the site has been a little weird about accepting a second code when you get a higher score…

Also, don’t be too frustrated if you have the highest score, but for some unexplainable reason are not number #1 on the list. There seems to be some confusion there, be it coding or explained somewhere not very prominently on the site. But even so the ability to see how you rank with other players who take the time to post high scores is admittedly pretty amusing.

“and together there in a shroud of frost the mountain air
began to pass through every pane of weathered glass
and i held you closer than anyone would ever guess.”
—We Looked Like Giants, Transatlanticism

So I can’t imagine taking forever to read this book, because I definitely stayed up until 4:15 am reading all 518 pages, after I checked it out of the library at 2:11 pm and had to take a two hour break for a Friday dinner. I haven’t stayed up reading that late in forever. It was amazing. I think I even dreamed about it.

Laughing and crying within minutes of each other.

That I can’t even decide what excerpt from the book I want to share says a lot. That I just want to paste the whole book here and explain everything that it meant says even more.

I love when I can’t put a book down even after I’ve finished reading it. And you know when you read or listen to something and you don’t care if other people don’t like it? It’s more than you love it so much you don’t want to share. I just think that is huge.

“I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and she cannot follow.”

“I just find your music pretty astounding, and I know superlatives never mean much, but there’s a nuance to the warmth inside your voice that I don’t have any convenient words for, and while we’re surrounded by people who talk all sharp and smart, they don’t talk anywhere close to the way you sing, and in an age when everyone and their on-line alter ego has a theory about belief and the past and memory and love, you manage to phrase things in a way beyond marketing categories, which I might even hazard to say has to do with the idea of honesty.”
—from http://cdbaby.com/cd/anaporter