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...internal map as much as walking in Boston on Comm. Ave. cements the relationship between Back Bay and Fenway. And suddenly, a city that once seemed centerless will appear connected in ways that only the person who mapped it can understand, because the true map rests in the grip of memory...
MEXICO CITY: In what is being called a victory for democracy in Mexico, the PRI, the governing party which has ruled the nation for almost 70 years, appears to be losing its ironclad grip on power in Congress. After 80 percent of the vote was tallied, the PRI commanded 38.2 percent of the vote compared to 27.3 percent for the center-right National Action Party and 25.2 percent for the centrist Democratic Revolution Party. Despite the PRI's difficulties, largely a reflection of voter outrage over the state of the economy, TIME's Tim Padgett says the party will still...
...ready. Early in her latest adventure, Shadow Woman (Random House; 350 pages; $22), a thug traps her in an elevator at a Las Vegas casino. She feigns ineffectuality, cringes, then breaks his leg and gouges an eye. As she starts to leave, he grabs her ankle hard (his grip "tightening like the jaws of an animal"), and she says to him, "Think. If you drag me back in there alone with you and your broken leg, are things going to get better for you, or worse?" Sweet reason prevails, and he lets...
...Beijing's leaders may find that building an electronic great wall around Hong Kong will be an impossible feat. The virtual medium looks like Hong Kong's most powerful protection for free speech, since whatever China may do to plug the holes in the new wall by tightening its grip on Hong Kong's 49 ISPs, the Internet by nature is virtually unpoliceable. If pressed, Hong Kong's controversial web sites can merely move to the unregulated foreign web services. And sooner or later, Internet users deep in the mainland are bound to be chuckling over Fat Dragon's latest...
...persona can alternate from the professorial to the cagey. Pressing Carnesale on a controversial issue is a lot like wrestling an alligator: it's hard to get a grip, and just when you think you have one, he slips away...