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...year ago tomorrow, the USA PATRIOT Act—a misnomer if there ever was one—breezed through the House and the Senate with an embarrassingly small amount of debate. Cowed by the noxious jingoism of the bill??s supporters, few in Congress investigated its provisions and even fewer raised objections to them. There is no doubt that those were trying times for our nation, but so little discussion was an insult to the traditions of free and open inquiry on which this country has prided itself. The fruits of the bill were rotten long before...
...forward and backward: the death of Naomi Landsmann, Leora’s best and only friend. This event causes Leora to meet Naomi’s grandfather, Bill, whose passion for Biblical photographs causes him to view life in discrete moments, snapshots that never form a cohesive whole. Though Bill??s goal is to create “the Bible on film, its greatest moments recorded in stop-action photography,” these tiny squares cannot create a world of meaning for either of the two characters...
Unfortunately, the delightful witticisms of the narrator are sometimes hampered by heavy-handedness. Both narrator and characters can be preachy in their efforts to make their religious, moral or life philosophies heard. The text is particularly labored as it ventures into Bill??s past, where it finds the necessary connections, symbols and images to reach the novel’s climax. It is tough for the reader to leave the unusual Leora for Bill??s story...
Harvard and other major research universities will share $2 billion in new federal funding for anti-terrorism research pending the passage of a homeland security bill??an event several university lobbyists yesterday said is almost a certainty...
...Politics” was mentioned in the Smith legislation, and Rosen said he generally supports the bill??s contention that current Harvard courses can fit ROTC requirements...