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Understandably, the author does not entirely share this sense of relief. A Fish in the Water (Farrar Straus Giroux; 532 pages; $25) is his bittersweet look at the nearly three years he spent in public life. It all came about, he says, "through the caprice of the wheel of fortune." At the time, he thought of his decision to campaign for the presidency as a "moral" one. "Circumstances," he writes, "placed me in a position of leadership at a critical moment in the life of my country." But that's what all politicians say. Vargas Llosa the writer...
...Mark Fish '94, who delivered the traditionallycomic Ivy Oration, told the collegiate fairy taleof Princess Sue (as in summa cum laude)whose demanding father, King Harvard opposed herrelationship with one socalled Sir Cumference...
...heavyweight picked up their pieces, Radcliffe's lightweight crew continued their spritely trips across the fish line...
...creatures are on endangered-species lists: not only the murrelets but also the spotted owl, the peregrine falcon, the bald eagle and a couple of humble amphibians, the Pacific giant salamander and the tailed frog. While Coho salmon still spawn in Headwaters streams, stocks of this once plentiful game fish have crashed so sharply off California -- in part because of logging erosion -- that all sport and commercial fishing was banned recently. Environmentalists gripe that wildlife-survey regulations are a joke because logging companies do their own surveys. But regulations have slowed log production, and Pacific has fought back...
...years later, in 1992, the logging firm defied state and federal regulations more directly. Over a frenzied Thanksgiving weekend of what environmentalists called "renegade logging," Pacific broke off negotiations with state officials and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and sent loggers into a prized old-growth stand called Owl Creek. Though Pacific claimed that the state board of forestry and the office of Governor Pete Wilson had approved the Thanksgiving cut, it was stopped after five days by a state appeals court. John Campbell, Pacific's combative president, shrugs off legal entanglements that have tied up virtually...