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...surprisingly, Vowl must simply vanish from this book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...
...because the new technologies have made the traditional concept of culture as a community activity seem old fashioned to many people. One of them appears to be Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who reportedly has bought the electronic rights to museum masterpieces for projection on the walls of his mansion-in-the making in Medina, Washington. Billionaires used to endow museums to care for their private art collections; amassing the digitalized holdings of such institutions for home enjoyment is not quite the same thing. With libraries moving online and 500 channels of interactive TV promised fairly soon, even modestly well...
...bulky enough to allow carrying it to qualify as aerobic exercise; its readers may wind up as hardy as Hardy. You might expect a smaller volume, given his relatively uneventful life. Born into a family of masons, he spent his days mostly in rural Dorset. Max Gate, the mansion he built for himself and lived in for more than 40 years, was located about two miles from his birthplace...
Hence the glorious relief of those recent holiday meals. The food is unreformed, archaic, predictable -- mashed potatoes and gravy, overcooked veggies, huge slabs of pie. It's democratic, if not downright egalitarian -- meaning pretty much the same collection of foodstuffs whether you dine in a mansion or a soup kitchen. We can give thanks, with a chorus of satisfied belches, that the food is for once meant just to be filling, and that the only entertainment we're likely to find at the table is the people who are seated around...
...presidential security in as many months, somebody fired four to six shots at the back of the White House early Saturday morning. The 9-mm bullets -- one of which was found on the first-floor balcony -- appeared to come from a handgun fired from somewhere south of the mansion. Clinton was asleep upstairs at the time...