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...early. I came back from Thanksgiving break well-armed. I bought boxes of cards, planning carefully ahead for the right variety of humorous and serious, religious and secular messages, in sharp contrast to my typical last minute trip to the Coop for the leftover box of Shoebox Greetings with clever jokes about killing reindeer...
...gone for Danish novelist Peter Hoeg, who followed his brilliant thriller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, with a couple of mannered, too-clever fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is that Hoeg's latest novel, The Woman and the Ape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 261 pages; $23), is a disaster, part animal-rights tract and part millennial doom mongering, that looks at irritating from the underside...
Well, not exactly. Nick isn't leaping ahead with the sort of innovative live-action fare it serves up in the evenings (The Secret World of Alex Mack) but rather with repeats of its weekday cartoons like the clever Rugrats, as well as reruns of older Saturday-morning shows that were canceled by the major networks years ago. "When Nickelodeon is able to beat broadcast networks with repeats of Muppet Babies and Beetlejuice," notes Jamie Kellner. head of the WB, "it suggests the matter goes far beyond programming...
...balance the budget, I voted with him"; Newt's picture moved toward Blute. "But when he wanted to increase taxes, I voted against him"; Clinton's picture faded into the distance. "And when he wanted to cut education, I voted against him"; Gingrich's picture suffered the same fate. Clever, but not enough. Blute lost to Jim McGovern, who incessantly pointed out that Blute had voted with Gingrich 85% of the time, and whose ads took advantage of a fortuitous rhyme: "You wouldn't vote for Newt; why would you ever vote for Blute...
...dangerous animals, and if their population is not kept under control, they will begin to endanger the lives of human beings. The sport of bear hunting has not killed off the species. On the contrary, bear-population levels in Michigan are at an all-time high. Bears are extremely clever animals and are not easily hunted, even with bait and dogs, the best feasible method. Licenses to kill these animals are not given freely either; very few hunters actually receive such licenses. The bear population needs to be controlled for the safety of all people. Let's put humans first...