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...Titans also boast one of California's top lefthanded starters in Cal State-Northridge transfer Benito Flores. The senior--who was junior righthander Donny Jamieson's teammate at Orange Country's El Dorado High School--sports a nifty 12-0 record...
...Benito Mussolini forms Fascist government in Italy...
...marginal group at Harvard, and they can only get attention if they create a stir. Certainly, it's in bad taste to joke about enemies lists and firing squads. But as the line "making a list and checking it twice" evokes images of jolly St. Nick, not of belligerent Benito, I think we're justified in assuming that Peninsula's goal was not really to inspire all good men to unbind their faces. Peninsula well deserves the contempt this latest stunt has brought them, but it's hard to believe that their sophomoric hyperbole intimidated anyone...
Meanwhile the narration is uninspired, surprisingly so given the grace of Lightman's writing in Einstein's Dreams. There, his use of sparse, simple language served him well allowing him to suggest possible worlds through short, carefully chosen phrases, quick touches of color, and imaginative details. In Good Benito, however, his language falls flat and his colors seem drab...
...prose of Einstein's Dreams, the strange culture of all-too-human physicists--a difficult task, since Lightman's style has so far shown itself much better suited to fanciful speculation than to plot and character. But the seeds are there; they just don't bear fruit in Good Benito...