Thursday, July 19, 2012

Thursday morning roundup

Activism in Pakistan's tribal areas can be deadly.

North Dakota reels from the oil boom even as it profits.


Whoa, did Gail Collins (and her editor) misuse "whom"? Just because she's referring to someone who will be picked, by the time that person will be, he or she is a subject, not an object, and thus a "who," not a "whom."

This Opinionator piece on weddings is a waste of space until the last paragraph:
There are snapping turtles at every wedding, under the tables and on the dance floor, snapping warnings about the uncertainties of the future, the impermanence of our bodies, the fickleness of love. But the best things, the eating and drinking and dancing and kissing, happen only when we ignore them.

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