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...heart of her novel lies in a funny, extraordinary other world where men, hit by lightning, start to read everything backward and women swallow silver dust to cure themselves of hallucinations (it doesn't work). The everyday magic of this invisible realm is given fiber by the hard facts of natural history she incorporates, and the sheer extravagance of Cuban thinking ("Dreams about carne asada can mean only one thing," a radio hostess opines: "that the caller should devote her life to God"). Writing in a voice not quite like any other, Garcia takes exuberant flight without ever taking leave...
...that the bomb was made out of ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil. Ammonium nitrate was found at the scene, but the bomb could have been made out of another explosive that contains it, such as dynamite. The report says the investigator reached his conclusion in part by reasoning backward from the fact that a receipt for ammonium nitrate fertilizer had been found at Nichols' house. In fact, while the evidence is consistent with an ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb, it does not exclude other possibilities. The report also leaves open the question of whether McVeigh's clothing might...
...that, millions of minds must have leaped 1,000 miles south and two days backward, to where and when Tiger Woods strode up the 18th fairway at Augusta National. It would have been thrilling enough that a 21-year-old had won the Masters or that any golfer had outstripped his competition by 12 strokes, the largest margin of victory in a major tournament in this century. Neither reality seemed as significant, though, as the color of his skin, because almost 50 years to the day that Robinson integrated baseball, Woods became the first nonwhite victor of what was once...
...replete with exclusively Harvard jokes, No Bull took on the form of a surprisingly conventional musical comedy of mistaken identity: pleasant if not particularly memorable music, a cheerfully tongue-in-cheek plot and caricatures obviously intended to be as farcical as possible. Set in the fictitious Pueblo Cito, a "backward little town" on the coast of Spain, the story revolves around three principal characters: El Bean (Tim Arnold '00), a famous matador; Hector (Elie Mystal '00), a sleazy politician; and Ana Sanchez (Tonia d'Amelio '00), a village girl whose fiance was trampled to death by bulls...
...more pressing question for manufacturers is whether the technology will take a more firm hold in DVD players that would replace CD-Audio players and VCRs, or DVD-ROM drives for computers that are backward compatible with current CD-ROM disks...