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Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake (Putnam; 219 pages; $23.95) is a salvage job, a reprocessing of what the author calls the "best parts" of an unpublished novel that did not work. This revision is a mix of autobiographical bits, plot concepts, barbershop cynicism and romantic idealism, all loosely tied together by a standard science-fiction device: on Feb. 13, 2001, a quirk in space-time flips the calendar back 10 years to Feb. 17, 1991. From that moment, everyone in the world is fated to repeat the decade in every living detail...
Ronald L. Fleming, head of Cambridge's Townscape Institute, says the mix of stores in Harvard Square "stimulates curiosity and nurtures intricacy," features that a "homogenized unit" like McDonald's would threaten...
This was the crisis of "We are the World" fame, a strange mix of starving children and weepy rock stars. "We are the World" is what we expect of a famine. We know how to deal with it, how to be sad, how to give our nickels and dimes...
Four freshman grace the roster as well, including middle hitter Katherine Hart, who is Elissa's younger sister. The mix of young and veteran players should make the season interesting, if not difficult-to-predict...
Four freshman grace the roster as well, including middle hitter Katherine Hart, who is Elissa's younger sister. The mix of young and veteran players should make the season interesting, if not difficult-to-predict...