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Face the facts men: dancing IS every Harvard man's dream. So grab a partner and get down to it: the only thing you've got to lose is the beat
Imagine this: you wake up in the morning and grab The Crimson from behind your door. The article that you were interviewed for yesterday is on the front page. Halfway through the article, you read your quotes, and in a rage, hurl The Crimson out the window: You've been misquoted...
...implausible plot into a convincing omen. Middle-class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department. Soon Jammu and her imported Indian co-conspirators launch a power grab that includes Orwellian public relations, kidnappings and pet assassinations. Franzen's twisty plot and thriller pace are the sweeteners that mask his caustic commentary on urban decline...
Undaunted, Glaser decided to take the chance that might save his only remaining child. "If you're drowning in a river, and someone throws you something that looks like it will float and looks like it might not, you're still going to grab onto it--aren't you?" he asks. Glaser's gamble seems to have paid off. Within two weeks of starting treatment, Jake's viral count had dropped below his doctors' ability to measure...
...even in the leanest machine, it's hard to avoid such accoutrements of the '90s as logo-design consultants, glossy blue press packets and focus groups that mall-test key words to see which ones grab people's attention. Deaver's p.r. firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is billing its services at a 20% discount; Deaver is donating his. Powell is not going to put up with the kind of waste made notorious by charity balls and the United Way scandal, in which money was spent to raise more money and lavished on salary and perks. The two founding partners...