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Hiaasen, a columnist for the Miami Herald, is a funny fellow who regards human Floridians as a notch below palmetto bugs in matters of ethics and compassion. His new crime novel about South Florida, the sixth in a very good run, is caustic and comic. The author's method hasn't varied since the first, Tourist Season: turn over a rock and watch in glee and honest admiration as those little rascals squirm in the light...
...pressing urgency of global crises such as the Bosnian war and the importance of international resolve in dealing with such conflagrations. Why then the push for isolationism, or what Arthur Schlesinger has termed "the return to the womb?" Despite its minimalist rhetoric, the "new" position does not herald a fresh, more friendly geo-political landscape in which U.S. muscle is no longer needed. As the Senate bill shows, far from Francis Fukuyama's euphoric declaration several years ago that the era of major historical conflict had come to an end, the new policy derives from a blind faith...
...White House were shot. As a loyal Republican, he couldn't imagine challenging a sitting President in the 1992 primaries. Then came the diagnosis of prostate cancer in 1991; he underwent surgery in December to have his prostate gland removed. Finally, Clinton's victory in 1992 seemed to herald a Democratic rebirth that would leave Dole sniping from the sidelines in his position of Senate minority leader...
...academia (even more than fiction writers, poets are likely to teach for a living) a bad thing? In an age of computers whose memories dwarf our own, what is the fate of the old-fashioned practice of learning poems by heart? Does that easily brandished term Postmodernism in fact herald anything new, or are we seeing the mere aftershocks of the modernist earthquake that erupted three-quarters of a century...
...Women's Bar Association has] seriousreservations about Professor Fried...based on hisreputation for a lack of fairness and lack ofjudicial temperament," Sender told the Herald...