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Ann Goldstein: “Star Translator” Who Has Emerged from the Shadow of the Author

“There are those who say that every generation needs a new translation: why a work itself doesn’t age whereas a translation does, is in some way mysterious. But translations seem more closely tied to their time, and the style of their time, and can easily come to sound dated…When you spend so much time in an author’s mind you almost can’t help feeling a kind of intimacy…. In the case of The Neapolitan Novels, I essentially spent four years not only with the author but with her characters. When I finished the third book, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, I felt bereft: I was so used to having the characters, the words, the rhythms of the sentences in my mind that my life seemed to be missing an important and active part… every work leaves some part of itself—a word, a phrase, a sensation—in me.”

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Buried Under a Mountain of Student Debt: But Do You Really Need a College Degree?

Educators know that college may not be for everyone. There are all kinds of aptitudes, skills, talents, and abilities—and above all, motivations and interests. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are all college dropouts. Sadly though, it’s politically incorrect to acknowledge that people are different and that there are many ways to fulfill your potential, find a rewarding occupation and earn a good living. Our young people have been blinded to the many possibilities that exist and we educators are too paralyzed by political correctness to give them sound and realistic advice.

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Trumpworld, the GOP and Personal Loyalty: Kiss the Ring Until it’s Tarnished

Moral baseness reached even greater depths when those like McConnell and Haley, who metaphorically had crawled in the mud almost to the finish line, did a complete turnaround when it became politically expedient to abandon the “leader” they had formerly admired, praised and enabled. It is especially McConnell though, who should inspire the greatest contempt because it was he who set the tone among the Republican legislators that enabled Trump to crash through one moral boundary after another. It was he who could have put the brakes on the moral slide.

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The Incredible World of Child Activists: They’re Scared, but Want to Save the World

Young people are scared and angry when they think about the future, their own and that of the planet. As we see in "Tomorrow Belongs to Us" (Demain est à nous) , the only thing that mitigates this fear is the feeling that they can exercise some control over the outcome, and the way to do that is to do something about it. We grownups have guzzled gas and water, thrown away food while millions were starving, eradicated forests to make more boxes, clogged the oceans—and their life forms—with plastic bags, and poisoned the air with fossil fuel fumes. These children activists know who is to blame for their gloomy future: us.

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My COVID “Disguise”: Does Wearing a Mask Change Who I Am?

“We are actors on the stage of our own theater, and we script a role for ourselves through ‘impression management’”. Speaking from personal experience, I sorely miss my wardrobe. As I prepared for work each day to teach at my college, I could choose what part of my personality I wanted to act out that day. Did I feel mysterious and sophisticated? Go for the black on black. How about girly and casual? Sporty and active? All possibilities. Now that I work from home I’m no longer “performing” in front of my audience, I dress for my daily run and yoga instead because….

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Trump’s Departure: Gone but Sadly, Not Likely to Be Soon Forgotten

The armed criminal supporters--the “pied pipers of Trumpism"-- that stormed the Capitol in what can only be considered an attempted coup d’état, have not only changed the way that the long-established Inauguration ceremony can take place today, they have undermined the security of America and democracy tomorrow and all the days to follow. The nation is divided and nothing makes this clearer than the number of votes that Biden and Trump each received. With 85 to 74 million, the nation is almost equally divided in half. Newly sworn in President Joe Biden talks of universal love, unity and empathy, but I think that the ship of brotherly love in America sailed a while ago.

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Where’s My Covid-19 Vaccine? Here Is the Real Situation According to the Doctors

It seems obvious that the frontline of the medical profession, our family doctors, were overlooked in the planning stage when purchase orders were being placed. No matter what you hear in the media about getting vaccinated ASAP, this is more fiction than reality. As the Trump Administration was unprepared to stem the spread of the coronavirus, they are now equally unprepared to administer the vaccines that could put a speedy end to it.

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Covid-19: Your Kiddies Won’t Be Making Cookies with Grandma This Christmas

All age groups are dealing with specific challenges, but grandma and grandpa are in a group by themselves. As parents you still have many decades ahead of you to make new memories with your children, but sad as it is to state the obvious, grandparents are on a reverse countdown. No hugs, no kisses, no human warmth. Their remaining time is limited and the isolation imposed by Covid-19 is robbing them of these precious moments.

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