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...pages into her new novel, Walker stages a highly illustrative scene of lesbian sex. Is it fiction or is it gynecology? A moot question when confronting an author whose continuing crossover success depends on reaching an expanding audience. Walker flits gnomically through space and time to tell the story of an American family and its transformation from a repressed patriarchal unit to a spiritual sorority of free radicals. Fans of the well-focused The Color Purple may not appreciate Walker's looser style or such unintended crack-up lines as "...in the branches of the nearest tree lives the first...
That was the glad nerve Ruth palpated. When he showed up with his superfluity of power, the apparently effortless capacity to render moot all the niggling fine points of the contest, the game was instantly changed. The bunt, the stolen base, the Baltimore chop were back-burnered for decades. Ruth's brash Yankees went to the 1923 World Series against the New York Giants, the classiest tacticians of their day. The series went to six games, but the Babe poled three into the right-field seats, and the Yankee dynasty had begun. Heywood Broun spoke for millions of delighted fans...
...scheduled release of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system, the Justice Department and the attorneys general of several states are reportedly preparing to file new antitrust charges against the company as early as next week. The impending release of Windows 98 presents a challenge to prosecutors because it will moot the issue of Windows 95, which will be widely supplanted by the new version. With that in mind the government will soon have to decide whether to block the release of the new operating system as part of a broader lawsuit based on Sherman Antitrust Act violations. Such a case...
...Jaros, DFL-Duluth, chairman of the House International Affairs Committee, is calling on the federal government to temporarily lift the work ban, which is the real problem. The federal restrictions are designed to ensure that foreign students are really here to study. But for Asian students, the point is moot. Without work, many won't be able to study...
Speaking to several hundred students in the Ames Moot Courtroom yesterday afternoon, Jackson asked the group to support the cause he so recently shepherded on the west coast, that it is inclusion and diversity which will eventually lead the country to broader economic growth...