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...deeply troubling and perhaps the best of the stories in the new collection, "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," tells of the way a family of cow-boy brothers viciously castrate a severely crippled man: Proulx comments, "Only earth and sky matter. Only the endlessly repeated flood of morning light. You begin to see that God does not owe us much beyond that." The reader should be grateful that Proulx does not often drop into this kind of openly reflective tone: she is at her best when carefully texturing rural life, when she tells her stories without...
...soul classics, it would have been impossible to compare the bands on their relative musical "merit." Instead, it seems that audience response determined the judges' prompt verdict. The Battle's champion was 98%, whose covers of "Soul Man" and "That's the Way I Like It" created a flood of dancing bodies, which ran up the aisles and swept chairs out of the way. Shame on the audience for holding onto their inhibitions until the very last blows of the battle! Perhaps it was the stifling non-ambience of the Pfoho dining hall. Perhaps it was the poor attendence...
...horrors of Kosovo are explained away. Whether by word of mouth or the Western media, much of Yugoslavia knows something of the "ethnic cleansing" going on in the province. But the quick, brutally cynical response from the government--that NATO bombings, not Serbian soldiers, are to blame for the flood of refugees--is parroted by many Serbs...
This was the worst catastrophe to afflict the fragile patrimony of Italian art history since the 1966 flood in Florence, but the Italian church and civil authorities rashly promised to have the basilica restored and open to the public again in time for Christmas 1999. The restoration cost was estimated at $60 million--the price, more or less, of a single Van Gogh, but not easy to raise. The aim of this show, then, is to remind the public of the Assisi disaster and of the urgency of its repair...
From that small beginning, Y2K litigation is swelling to a flood. It was inevitable that Y2K glitches--caused by the inability of some computer hardware and software to read years after 1999--would keep lawyers busy well into the next century. What's surprising is just how fast the suits are coming: at least 78 so far, as many as 800 legal disputes proceeding to formal negotiations, and a few large settlements, including one for $7.5 million. If lawyers are this active now, how bad will it get when the year 2000 actually arrives? Lloyds of London insurance has predicted...