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...HOME TOWN This fond but completely unsentimental portrait of Northampton, Mass., captures the joys and the sheer human cussedness on daily display there. Tracy Kidder lives nearby, and he spent years listening to his neighbors and walking their streets. His book is an extraordinary feat of reporting and writing, a vivid reminder both of why so many Americans flee the small towns of their birth and why so many of them miss the sense of belonging that such places inspire...
...SPAD: It was mostly the way they would say my last name. People were fond of the 'Oh, my darling' jokes. Or 'My darling, Sterling...
When Jose Bove was growing up in Berkeley, Calif., he was particularly fond of American birthday cakes. "I thought they were fantastic," he says, "with all the icing and decorations and candles. What kid could resist that?" He was apparently less taken with hamburgers. Last August the radical French farm leader led a commando attack on a McDonald's outlet under construction in the southern town of Millau. Armed with crowbars, sledgehammers, wrenches and screwdrivers, these crusaders for the French way of life dismantled the fast-food franchise...
...force us to give money. Since our schedule is different from all other schools, we have to spend all our time with Harvard people. We vacation with Harvard people, so we marry Harvard people. Then at our 25th reunion we fork over money because we'll have all these fond, romantic memories: 'Oh look Casey, there's the Grille! Where we first...
GNHBA: That Yale guy, George W., seems to be pretty fond of the passive voice. That's how you can tell he's the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination...