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...Chip, having lost his college teaching job for sleeping with one of his students, has found his way to free-market Lithuania, where he is helping a world-weary ex-politician fleece investors over the Internet. His prosperous brother Gary is drinking hard to reconcile himself to a manipulative wife and three sons who are drifting from his affections. Their sister Denise, a celebrity chef, makes reckless thrusts into other people's marriages. As anyone can tell you, "Christmas with the family" is a goal that has trouble written all over it. Trouble ensues...
...Fretilin believes this is its hour. But the move to democracy has seen a flowering of political rivals. Only a handful of the 16 political parties that contested this election existed before Indonesia invaded in 1975; many are just a year old. And some, like Partido Democratico, may yet chip away at Fretilin's vote. P.D. draws much of its support from young East Timorese attracted to a new generation of leaders like party president Fernando de Araujo, who was jailed for student activism in the 1990s. De Araujo says democracy in East Timor needs more than one strong party...
...CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK The Jumbo Music Block ($60, for ages 1 and up) is designed to be Baby's first gadget. Made by Neurosmith, which specializes in tech for tykes, it's a plush cube 14 in. on a side--that's about waist high on a toddler--and covered with bright, colorful touch-sensitive shapes, each of which hides a secret pocket. It's designed to teach music and motor skills: touch a shape, and it plays a maddeningly perky tune...
...Spiegelman will also be appearing on bookshelves again. He has two new projects coming out in the next months. "Jack Cole and Plastic Man," co-written with Chip Kidd, will be a softcover published by Chronicle books in September. It reprints the essay Spiegelman wrote about Cole and his creation for the New Yorker, but will be "profusely, wildly, insanely illustrated," according to Kidd...
...noteworthy collections of daily strips, one old and one new, appear this fall. "Peanuts: The Art of Charles Schulz" (Pantheon), a softcover edited by Chip Kidd that appears in October, reprints 500 of Schulz's cartoons along with sketchbooks and never-before-published material from his archives. Maybe this book will explain how the word "genius" applies to that crudely-drawn dwarf's repetitious bumblings...