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...greatest fear is being the biggest dork at the Janet Reno Dance Party. I have never been anywhere in South Beach where I was not the least cool person in the room, and Level, where Reno is throwing a Friday-night fund raiser, is one of the hottest clubs in Miami. Being the No. 1 loser at a party for Janet Reno - the former U.S. Attorney General, current Florida gubernatorial candidate and perennial icon of dork style - could set my self-confidence back to junior high levels...
...head to do it. The good news is that these are 2,200 people who make me look like the young John Travolta. These are the people you see on convention floors, who are referred to as the party "faithful," which I suspect is code for "loser." They shake "Janet Reno for governor" signs more than their booties. Never having been at a club where I felt at all cool, I use the opportunity to approach five women in half shirts and low-slung jeans and buy them Absolut and Red Bulls. I ask Nicole Gaviria, 32, of the shortest...
...life - an astounding 70,000 in all. Although two previous collections of his correspondence have been published, the vast majority of his more personal letters have remained private. But a new selection, revealing Wilson's more intimate side, has been put together by David Castronovo and Janet Groth: "Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters" (Ohio University Press; 354 pages...
...Kirkus dusts of its copy of "The Origin of the Species," giving "Charles Darwin: The Power of Place" by Janet Browne (Knopf; September 17) a starred review. "Continuing where 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging' (1995) left off, the British science historian completes her brilliant two-volume biography...For all his apparent desire to be left alone to lead the life of a country gentleman, Darwin was a shrewd self-promoter, vigorously publicizing his work even in the depths of a long illness that Browne suggests may have been brought on in part by his tireless labors...A richly detailed, vivid, and definitive...
...White House was content to watch last week as searchlights shone on FBI headquarters. Mueller played his best Janet ("The buck stops with me") Reno, admitting to "misstatements" about what the FBI knew before 9/11 and announcing plans to reorganize the sclerotic bureau into a nimble, terrorist-foiling machine. Was the White House concerned that Mueller may have gone too far? "Our goal was to position him as the reformer," says a senior White House aide. Which explains why the words reform and reformer kept tripping off the lips of Administration spinners as they refuted charges--from FBI whistle-blower...