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...WILDERNESS FOR ONLY A FEW MONTHS, the Republican Party is sorely in need of a new Moses. After a tense five-way contest, a badly divided G.O.P. chose Haley Barbour as its national chairman, charging the portly Mississippian with the daunting task of bringing together moderates, conventional conservatives and a right wing fixated on "family values," notably abortion...
...Barbour explains that Cal Berkeley seemed the perfect university to "go head to head" with Harvard. As a west coast public institution, Berkeley offers an alternative to a series coming from a "very expensive private school" like Harvard...
...Berkeley guides' political correctness "is not our raison d'etre," Barbour says. Berkeley is a liberal university, he says, and the student writers' sensibilities will come through. "We are socially aware. Fine. That's all we are," he insists, saying that the PC angle has been "overplayed" in the media...
Once readers get beyond stereotypes, however, both Deemer and Barbour are confident that their guides will be successful. Barbour says that the Berkeley Guides will present "fresh, contemporary copy" to travelers who are trying to avoid the "layering effect" of Let's Go Guides...
...think Andrew Barbour may call it `fresh.' We call it `subjective,'" says Deemer. Let's Go guides are "well-rounded" books, he says, since the average book is compiled from the travel experiences of 10 to 15 different researchers. Each chapter of a travel guide, he explains, ought to offer information, not "one person's very subjective experience...