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...title like Finding Nemo sold a scant quarter of a million or so genuine DVDs in China. (By comparison, Nemo sold nearly 15 million DVDs in the U.S. and Canada during its first two weeks alone.) The company, as a result, has lobbied the Chinese government to crack down on piracy...
...Bosh And Flapdoodle By A.R. Ammons "I'm largely a big joke: if somebody else/ doesn't make a crack about me, I do." You can be charmed by Ammons' self-effacement, but don't be fooled by it. His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny. This is Ammons' last book - he died in 2001 at the age of 75 - and you have a sense of him getting in his last licks, with no time left for politeness. "Do with the obvious," he advises, "little lies behind...
...died, Sin didn't make any pronouncements on the current political turmoil in Manila, and neither has the powerful Catholic Bishops' Conference. But a few senior clergy have, citing their own demands of conscience. In April three bishops released a letter demanding that the administration of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo crack down on corruption and initiate more programs to help the poor. One of the three, Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Luzon province of Pangasinan, has become a player in the scandals surrounding the President. For four years, Cruz has waged what he calls a "crusade" against an illegal lottery racket...
...Fourth of July. But the best pyrotechnics show is likely to take place 268 million miles away, when a probe fired from the Deep Impact spacecraft is scheduled to collide with Comet Tempel 1, a nine-mile-long rock roaring through space at 66,880 m.p.h. The planned cosmic crack-up will gouge out a football-field-size crater and may be visible from the U.S. Pacific Coast and points west. It may also reveal a lot about the chemistry of comets, fossils of the early solar system...
This is Andrew Field's third crack at the literary and biographical puzzle that was Vladimir Nabokov. The first, Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967), demonstrated the scholar's grasp of the great man's novels, stories and poems. It was a valuable guide through an intimidating maze of themes and plots; its thoroughness made it a high form of flattery. Field's credo, that a writer's "truest and most palpable biography" is his work, rang with disarming idealism. Nabokov must have been impressed and relieved; his disdain for the genre he defined as "psychoplagiarism" was well known...