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...keeping with Crichton’s characteristic style, the novel is a tangled web of romance and murder that takes readers on a whirlwind tour that hits Antarctica, the Solomon Islands, and countless less exotic destinations (including fair Cambridge). Hero John Kenner is an MIT professor who sets out to stop eco-terrorists from carrying out their nefarious plans...
...learn that hundreds of kinky convention-goers will be dropping in. In 2002, after Baptist leaders heard that the Howard Johnson hotel in Bridgeton, Mo., had served as the site for Beat Me in St. Louis, the Southern Baptist Convention canceled reservations at the hotel. Last year the Kenner, La., police chief mailed letters to local hotels urging them not to provide accommodations for Fetish in the Fall, a four-day series of parties and educational demonstrations--Dances with Whips, for instance--set for November. Chief Nick Congemi was worried that the gathering's activities would be "borderline illegal"; organizers...
MILESTONES: Goodbye to pitcher Warren Spahn and literary critic Hugh Kenner...
DIED. HUGH KENNER, 80, scholar and critic who was a leading authority on such standard-bearers of literary modernism as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Ezra Pound; after suffering from heart problems; in Athens, Ga. The author of 25 books (and a contributor to 200), Kenner avoided the jargon of academia in favor of an often witty, idiosyncratic style. He described his 1971 book, The Pound Era, on the poet's contribution to the birth of modernism, as "an X-ray moving picture of how our epoch was extricated from the fin de siecle...
...serious mistake. He should have sent more troops to combat the terrorists in Afghanistan. He hasn't figured out that while he is sending people to find nonexistent weapons in Iraq, the enemy is regrouping in Afghanistan. What is Bush going to do now? Attack Syria? ARUSH SARWAR Kenner...