Word: lande
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While surfing the World Wide Web last week, I happened to land on the site for Amazon.com (www.amazon.com), a cyberspace bookstore that purports to be the world's largest. I did my perfunctory search for works of J.D. Salinger, scanning the titles for something new. This, despite knowing full well I've read nearly everything he's ever published and several things he hasn't. But the impossible happens. Amazon.com lists "Hapworth 16, 1924" as a book to be released in January of 1997 by Orchises Press, and even though I've read the story (it was originally published...
...liberal, liberal. The difference between HMOs and socialized medicine, the Bill Clinton of this presidential campaign might say, is that an efficiently run hmo can produce a CEO who walks away with $4 million or $5 million a year without ever seeing a patient--proof that America remains the land of opportunity for all our citizens as we build a bridge to the 21st century...
...some odd reason, you neglect to make a wage/ That's high enough to land you in this gilded age,/ You'll spend your time where gangs and crime and drugs still rage./ That's the cage they call "Offstage...
...hard to understand his frustration. Paleoanthropologists have only a general idea of how humans first came to the Americas. It happened, most believe, around 12,000 years ago, when Asians began crossing a strip of land that connected present-day Siberia and Alaska, across what is now the Bering Strait. Modern Asians and Native Americans have enough genetic and physical similarities to make a convincing case for the link. But the details of the migration, including how many waves there were, when they happened and the routes by which wanderers subsequently moved east and south over the millennia, are still...
Even in his native land he is more shadowy myth figure than living historical presence. Maybe that's because he died when he was only 31 years old, his work and personality still unfinished, therefore not fully knowable or easily summarizable. Maybe it's because Ireland, despite its bloody history, is a conservative country, uncomfortable in its debt to a founding father whose greatest gift was for violence. And maybe all that is about to change. For Michael Collins the enigma is now Michael Collins the movie--a $30 million epic by writer-director Neil Jordan, auteur previously...