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Exhaustively portraying the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, it has comic exuberance, encyclopedic inclusiveness and a virtuoso display of diverse narrative styles that make most subsequent novels look like spin-offs. RUNNERS-UP One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov...
...understanding and faith in those qualities as well. The heroes not only defeated Hitler; they provided our lasting inspiration as well. "Just as Hitler made us believe we hadn't yet sounded the depths," notes Rosenbaum, "maybe Martin Luther King Jr. and the great artists of the century, like Nabokov, help us believe there are still heights we haven't found...
...Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1,476 ft.). Peaked like Angkor Wat, the world's tallest building attests to the ambitions of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad...
...have quit unless he?d gotten all the immunity guarantees he needed." Yeltsin also asked Russia?s people for a New Year?s gift in return. "I want to beg forgiveness for your dreams that never came true," he said in an emotional TV address. "And also I would like to beg forgiveness for having not justified your hopes." In other words, he wrote his own political epitaph...
...There has to be something better to do than Partying Like It's, well, you know. Doesn't there? For the three sane people in the U.S. who are NOT going to be spending their evening as clay pigeons in the terrorist crosshairs, er, crossroads of the world, Couch Potato offers these millennial movies...