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...when Chabon drops the midnight disease and simply shows us Grady as a lonely and loveable guy, he produces some wonderful scenes, both hilarious and genuinely touching. In the novel's finest section, Grady visits his in-laws' Passover Seder in a fruitless attempt to win back his wife, Emily. Emily is one of three Korean orphans adopted by a suburban Jewish couple, Irv and Marie, and this improbable family becomes for Grady the warm, loving home he desperately needs...
...also blame Ronn Tomassoni (you never win blaming individuals--the team as a whole stunk Saturday night, and to pinpoint any guilt on the aforementioned skaters is fruitless and ill-intentioned--but after watching a game like that, how can a self-respecting hockey critic not lash out at someone?), belatedly, for only Saturday getting back to the lines which were working so well for him during the glory days of mid-January after dabbling with some changes during what has become a 2-5-0 February swoon...
After a weeklong national alert and a frantic series of fruitless tips and searches set off by Susan Smith's vivid accounts, the hunt for the carjacking kidnapper of 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander ended in Union County, South Carolina, the place where the tragedy began. Authorities accused Smith of murdering the children after police found her car with the boys inside at the bottom of a local lake. The arrest shocked the community and appeared to confirm some of the worst infanticidal suspicions of early doubters of Smith's tale...
...Israeli and Palestinian leaders, along with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, were named the recipients of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the highest trophy politicians can hope for. Yet there was no jubilation in Tel Aviv or Gaza City. The honor had been spoiled by tortured and ultimately fruitless attempts by both Palestinians and Israelis to avoid a tragedy. The poignance and pitilessness of lives well below the heights of power had overshadowed political priorities, and the 13-month effort to implement peace was thrown into its worst crisis...
...President's green light -- is not so certain. He knows an invasion would be unpopular: people questioned in the TIME/CNN poll were against it, 58% to 30%. Opposition could intensify if U.S. troops, after a quick and cheap initial victory, got bogged down Somalia-style in a long, fruitless and possibly bloody job of "nation building." At some point, though, Clinton may lose his last hope of scaring Cedras into quitting and find that he either has to order the troops into action or look like a fool making threats that cannot be believed...