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...some shouldn't be here at all - including, truth be told, a moldy piece on independent India's 50th anniversary that I edited for this magazine. But he's brilliant on the real message of The Wizard of Oz , which is that Dorothy's "no place like home" ender is all wrong. After a trip like that, Rushdie insists, you can't go home again: stepping across the line into Oz transformed her into a seeker of the wider world, as all good voyages do. "The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross." And he is perceptive...
...population of the area—particularly Irish, German and Jewish—attracted the Communist Party to the South End in the late nineteenth century. Trade unions staged huge May Day rallies for the Ten Hour Work Day, but the strongest community spirit was the support of South Ender John L. Sullivan, a boxer. The local favorite had pulverized his opponent in the last bare-knuckle heavyweight championship fought in the United States—though the fight lasted 75 rounds...
DeGuzman apparently idolized Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, calling the Columbine gunmen "the only thing that's real." But unlike them, DeGuzman was no outcast. "He worked so well with everybody," says his yearbook adviser Paul Ender. The weapons, friends say, are simply part of DeGuzman's fantasy. Attorney Craig T. Wormley says his client "has merely an innocent fascination with some of the items that were seized." But the charges of weapons possession and intent to injure may send him to prison for 106 years. He has pleaded not guilty...
...Catholic district was barred 16. Creaking orbiter 17. "Live Free or Die," e.g. 18. Etch-A-Sketch control 20. You can count on them 23. Two New Yorkers were arrested for hacking into its computers 26. Mexicali Mrs. 29. C.W. Post is part of it 30. Gettysburg Address ender 31. Shakespeare prince 32. Team that baseball owners would like to disband 34. Kind of process 35. Opportunity for a hit 37. Magnum and others 38. Deep Blue's maker 39. Reddish-brown gemstone 40. He's signed on with the ad agency that helped elect Ventura 42. Prefix meaning personal...
...BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON FINALE (WB) Like the Littleton shootings--which prompted its postponement, one of TV's several craven post-Columbine p.r. gestures--Buffy's wry, touching season ender exposed the demons in a prosperous suburb. Werewolf Oz's words after the climactic battle scene--"We survived...high school"--were a resonant caption to the year of the troubled teen...