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There is, of course, the mundane kind of looking, when you search for a title you know you want--say a biography of Jane Addams--and realize that sitting one shelf down is the book on Chicago progressivism that is the absolute key to your 20-page history paper due next week. That is the useful kind of browsing. But the real fun begins when you're not looking for anything in particular...
...Monday I finally get in touch with Jane Fossett, the vice-chair of the Mohegan tribe. She tells me the sad history of the tribe and how the money generated by the casino will go to fund health care and housing for the elderly. I ask her--after she concedes that "ownership isn't part of our culture"--if there is a contradiction in the tribe entering a business venture that grates against its traditional values. But she shrugs off the question as naive. "We have to live in a non-Indian world," she lectures me, "and in order...
...coatroom was extremely chaotic," said Jane C. Manners '97. "At the end everyone was trying to get their coat at the same time and there were purses and cameras all over the floor. I think the CityStep organizers were overwhelmed and people were also too impatient to get their coats and get out of there...
...perceptive, engaging, but ultimately frustrating new book, The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany (Random House; 293 pages; $27.50), Jane Kramer, who writes the "Letter from Europe" column for the New Yorker, addresses the question of how the former West Germans and the former East Germans are adjusting to each other. She finds wariness and disappointment; they are making an edgy acceptance of unity without much enthusiasm. "As far as 'mentality' goes," Kramer writes, paraphrasing the thoughts of one German, "the Wall is very high in Germany, and will still be high in ten or twenty...
...minister, which in this context is shorthand for hypocritical bastard. He's also deserving of ridicule because he refuses to have premarital sex with his dishy girlfriend Candice (India Landigran), even though, oddly, he seems to live in sin with her. Just to be even-handed, we know that Jane's a jerk because she berates her boyfriend for using styrofoam cups and uses pop-psych lingo, though in temperament she seems less like Oprah than Ilse, She-Wolf...