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...repair work, says a White House official, "there is a risk it will turn from a tragedy to a cancer on the relationship." As the protests subsided in Beijing, the government-run media kept up their angry rhetoric against the U.S., and television stations ran Korean War movies with heroic Chinese soldiers killing Americans, in place of the usual NBA broadcasts...
...novel, Bone by Bone (Random House; 410 pages; $26.95), which is Watson's own first-person account, appears after 900 pages of teasing preamble. Because the author has advertised his main character as a monstrous enigma, he must now provide the monster. But Watson's villainy doesn't reach heroic stature. He is a likable bully and a good shot. Most notably, he is a brutal drunk. "When I give in to that urge to drink and stir up trouble," he admits, "there comes an even stronger urge to become drunker and behave still worse...
...made but less than awe-inspiring look at teenage life. Plus, the cast he was assembling for his latest project was made up largely of actors (mostly from TV) who had yet to make it big. And many more who never would. And then there was the story--a heroic epic set, as we all know so well now, in a galaxy far, far away. Admit it, if you were a studio executive in the '70s, you would probably have turned down Star Wars. A farmboy from another galaxy leaves home to fight an evil empire and save a beautiful...
...website, but maybe he was role playing in those days. It's clear that Brown still feels Eric's pull as well. He knows he'll miss sitting around in the afternoon with him, eating and talking about ideas like Ayn Rand's objectivism, which sees man as a "heroic being" whose happiness is the purpose of his life. He'll miss their disturbed fiction (in one creative-writing class, Brown read aloud Harris' violent memoir about leaping over logs and battling aliens in his backyard at age five; Dylan wrote something about Satan opening a day-care center...
...five teams at the two-day, ten-race event qualified for nationals, and Harvard edged MIT for the fifth spot by only one point. The Crimson was down by one point going into the last two races in the B division, but the heroic efforts of captain Cori Ermler and junior Sarah Levin reversed the points margin in Harvard's favor...