Each member of the House can hire a personal staff of 18 full-time and four part-time workers, all of whom devote their entire working lives to their bosses.
Or those for whom devoting all their spare time and spare cash to continual upgrades is their hobby, their lifestyle – the people who listen not to music they like, but to music that showcases their system.
And while a great deal of credit goes to Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts — both of whom devoted years to getting the legislation passed — there were also these three others, strange bedfellows for sure, who were critical in making cigarette regulation come to pass: Dr. Kessler, Mr. Parrish and Mr. Myers.
Unfortunately for White's timing, he finds his giddiest popularizer in Jonah Lehrer, to whom he devotes many pages.
I had no idea that the kind of Anglo-Bengali (Inga-Banga) Calcuttans, to whom Chaudhuri devotes one of his finest chapters, still existed.
The woman he was most attentive to, however, was Pauline Kael, to whom he devotes 50 genuflecting pages and who lurks around every corner here.
The one "popular" group to whom Hazan devotes particular attention and sympathy are the Parisian militants known as the sans‑culottes.
The most severe criticisms in the Seyāsat-nāmeh, however, are of those with heterodox religious views, the Shīʿites in general and the Ismāʿīlīs in particular, to whom he devotes his last 11 chapters.
He needn't have worried: Keret and his brother and sister, to whom he devotes an essay each in the collection, are all idealists, albeit in very different ways.
So, out go Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw et al, and in come Kane, Pinter and Barker, amongst others, to each of whom Barker devotes a separate blog, all of which are well worth a read.
