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...best seller. The novel, Murakami's 10th and his first big one since The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in 1997, features a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Tokyo home - shortly before his father's body is discovered in a pool of blood - and heads for distant Takamatsu. There he meets a mysterious librarian, who may or may not be his long-lost mother, and a sexy hairdresser, who may or may not be his vanished elder sister. Filling out the cast is an old man who lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained...
...Java Head: has a passing resemblance to E.T. (48 years later), the story of a strange and gifted creature who shocks on first glance, wins over the kid sister, is rejected for looking different and escapes to another land (a distant planet for E.T., death for Taou Yuen). The movie also is mildly progressive and provocative in positing a saintly Asian destroyed by ignorant Europeans. (Possible caveat: the villain, Nellie's brother, is a white man tainted by the Yellow Peril - opium.) But its most interesting subtext is the Code of the Kiss. In movies of the day, the hero...
...course this will tell us a lot about normal brains, but in the not too distant future we would like to apply it to diseased brains as well,” said lead investigator Dr. R. Clay Reid in an HMS press release. Reid did not respond to multiple requests for comment over the last week...
...former Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi and supporters of radical firebrand Moqtada Sadr, suggests there are plenty of fissures in the UIA coalition that could come into play in a new assembly. Moreover, the rules governing the new Assembly and government are such that even if he finishes a distant second, Prime Minister Allawi may yet find plenty of room for maneuver. There's no effective party discipline binding legislators once taken the seats in the Assembly guaranteed by their positions on their coalition's election lists filed in December. The only thing restraining an individual or faction elected...
...Setting the Record Straight Bush Family Heritage ? The genealogy chart "Paths of Power," showing the lineage of the Bush family, included President Franklin Pierce under the section headed "Distant Relatives" [Dec. 27-Jan. 3]. We said in error that he was an "ancestor of Barbara Bush's grandfather Scott Pierce." Franklin Pierce was a distant cousin of Scott Pierce, not his ancestor...