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...some spammers offer a taste of their products by enclosing pornographic pictures. (The controls can also be set to keep kids away from certain Websites; to keep them out of AOL's private chat rooms, where sexual talk is not uncommon; and to prevent the sending and receiving of "instant messages," a kind of impromptu E-mail that members use to approach each other directly...
Highly specific in its substance yet encompassing in its vision, Serge Schmemann's new book, Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village, is like a flash of light. It captures in an instant a jumbled collection of details in the past of a village, then slowly-fades--leaving as a general impression a sense of the history and of the prospects of Russia as a whole...
...confidence wavers for just that one instant though, before the same Gina that fought for the right to earn a Harvard degree re-emerges...
...missteps in a heavy-handed moralistic mess that has none of the storytelling grace he's displayed on happier occasions. In fact, he's succeeded in making John Grisham--the king of popcorn thrillers--lethally boring. There is no shameless entertainment here, no chance to be swept up in instant thrills. Instead, we see Matt Damon lost in two hours of disjointed storytelling without a touch of drama...
...stocks among the Dow 30 with the highest yields (dividend divided by price) and updated the portfolio once a year, the returns would triple those posted by the Dow Jones industrial average over the previous two decades. O'Higgins' 1991 book, Beating the Dow, was an instant hit and spawned a cultlike following. There are two Websites, three mutual funds, dozens of Unit Investment Trusts (UITs) and untold thousands of personal accounts leashed to the dogs. In all, probably more than $20 billion is invested in his strategy. And, uh, by the way, it doesn't work...