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...Harry Stein's The Girl Watchers Club (HarperCollins; 315 pages) takes its cues from Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: it celebrates the folksy wisdom of an older generation of men. The Girl Watchers Club is an informal cabal of men in their 70s and 80s who meet once a week to prowl yard sales and grouse about things "these days." These are men who grew up in the Depression and came of age on the battlefields of World War II. Their long, rich lives have taught them invaluable...
...while he couldn't agree to those terms, "I can't accuse you of being unbusinesslike." Both sides knew that global trade relations had changed. The impasse between rich nations and Brazil's "G-22" group collapsed the five-day Cancún meeting - which Zoellick blamed on a cabal of "can't-do" countries led by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has emerged as the spokesman for the developing world. It looks as if Lula may have more to talk about this week. The battle over First World subsidies could torpedo a new round...
...flash cards and constructing an oversize keyboard so Lorelei can type with her nose. Meanwhile Parkhurst intersperses Paul's quixotic efforts with his recollections (addressed to the reader in a chatty second person) of his romance with the moody, volatile Lexy and an intermittently engaging subplot about a secret cabal of researchers bent on endowing dogs with the power of speech using Gothically gruesome surgical techniques. This is totally implausible, but it helps reduce the novel's Q factor a little--Q for cute and quirky. Lexy and Paul meet cute, at a kitschy yard sale. She makes papier-mache...
...Wars takes us through Whitewater, Morris, Vince Foster, Paula Jones and Monicagate--episodes that few among us are longing to revisit, though they're marginally more interesting when seen from better seats. Blumenthal's abiding theme is that Clinton's presidency was the victim of a right-wing political cabal that manipulated the media and the legal system to make mountains out of dunghills, and he makes a surprisingly convincing case by doggedly following countless news stories and allegations to their origins in tainted, planted, unfounded, retracted, distorted, misleading and plain nonexistent evidence. Throughout, we get too brief flashbulb glimpses...
...deems the economic tests unmet, the Tories will try to tar Blair as the ideologue. And events are delivering a powerful hammer for pounding that point home: the European Convention, which next month will propose ways to revamp European institutions. Euro-skeptics are already portraying the convention as a cabal of creeping federalism. Last week the tabloid Sun published a poll showing that 81% of Britons don't know a new European treaty is being considered; when informed, 84% want to vote on it. Blair won't permit a referendum; it's the last thing he needs. But opponents think...