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Sick of hearing about such projects, many cultural critics are beginning to fear Disney's cavalier and ultra-capitalistic attitude. Most notable among the dissenters is Carl Hiaasen, a writer of zany South Florida mystery novels and celebrated columnist for The Miami Herald. His new book, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, reads like a marriage of the opinionated, highly personal journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion and the rants of Dennis Miller. One hesitates to apply the word "book" to Hiaasen's project-the slim volume bears a greater resemblance to a modern-day muckraking pamphlet, complete...
Hiaasen's ire stems mostly from the creation of Disney World, virtually right in his own backyard. He hates what the theme park has done to his home town of Orlando, attracting people to a purely synthetic, artificially reassuring fairyland while treating the neighboring real world of South Florida as an offensive trash heap...
...Gators don't play like champions anymore,"Florida coach Steve Spurrier lamented after histeam came away with just three field goals on sixtrips inside the Alabama 12. The Crimson Tide fellto...
...College Park, Md., Sebastian Janikowskikicked five field goals and Chris Weinke passedfor 261 yards as the Seminoles (4-1, 2-1 ACC)overcame their own mistakes. Florida State ledonly 16-10 at halftime against a team it hasdominated for years...
...authorized the dumping of nuclear subs and other radioactive waste, the use of rivers as open sewers, the taking of endangered whales when other nations agreed to abstain?" she says. "Or decision makers in the U.S. who gave the go-ahead years ago to reroute waterways in South Florida at great expense--a decision that has now been reversed, at great expense...