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...achieved in The Handmaid's Tale (1985) while maintaining her consistently high literary achievements. English professors will relish the postmodern trick--a novel with a novel within a novel--that gives The Blind Assassin (Doubleday; 521 pages; $26) its title. The less theoretically inclined can simply kick back and marvel at Atwood's gripping tale, which stretches from World War I almost to the present moment. At the center are two sisters, Iris and Laura Chase, daughters of a wealthy Canadian manufacturer who is ruined during the Depression. The Chase girls must adjust to diminished expectations, and the choices they...
...other president could you say that after two full terms (and relentless scandal - impeachment even!), he looks fresher, livelier, than he did when he came into office? Clinton is a phenomenon - of resilience, of survival, of some life force (either heroic or sleeplessly cunning) that causes his admirers to marvel and his moralist critics to foam at the mouth...
...biggest fund-raising month in its history--nearly $38 million in just 31 days. Cash is the Ecstasy of politics. On Tuesday afternoon, just a day after Colin Powell took the podium to blast "affirmative action for lobbyists," giddy Republican fund raisers met at the Westin Hotel to marvel at the cash flow as it gusted through the party ledgers. "This is unbelievable," one exulted. "We've never had a year like this...
...worse. That is why military personnel usually scour runways before jet fighters take off and why commercial pilots check their tires. As he prepared the engine for takeoff, Marty's adrenaline may have surged a bit. Like any other Concorde pilot, he knew that takeoff for the big, beautiful marvel is the most demanding phase of flight...
...first scene of the X-Men movie, which follows 37 years of legendmaking in Marvel comics, video games and animated TV shows, tips the hand of director Bryan Singer and screenwriter David Hayter. This will be a fantasy film with a message: the shunned are special; those seen as mutants are really superior; odd kids are good kids. And the world is a dark brown place where even the most extravagant stunt or special effect lacks the all-important Wow Factor...