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...between the sexes does not particularly concern Ethan Canin. While other writers chronicle that battle, as well as the myriad conflicts that ignite female relationships, Canin stalks the less traveled turf -- at home, at work and at play -- where men wage undeclared hostilities against one another. In The Palace Thief (Random House; 205 pages; $21), a superb collection of four novellas, as in his acclaimed earlier fiction (Emperor of the Air, Blue River), Canin also reminds us of a more interior battle: the struggle among men to discover who they really...
...obfuscating a true intellectual and cultural history in the name of ethnic pride. And, finally, we are denying the true American identity--an identity that is unique and valuable in that it is not definable in terms of skin color, geographic or igin, religion or any of the myriad of reasons that human beings have found to hate and murder each other over since the dawn of history...
...without the protests, Peninsula seems tohave recently faded into the myriad of campusjournals...
...recent success of the similar-sounding, acoustic-influenced Crash Test Dummies, it isn't surprising that Lowen and Navarro have reportedly been heard on alternative stations as well. The album features the accomplished guitar-playing and song-writing of Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro, who each play a myriad of instruments to accompany their well-harmonized singing. Their well-matched voices blend perfectly; Lowen's is slightly higher and clearer, while Navarro's is lower and reminiscent of Gordon Lightfoot. Picking them out is often difficult, however--the two switch back and forth effortlessly from melody to harmony throughout...
Reacting against the selfishness and materialism that are sanctified by the competitive market -- and that undermine our ability to sustain loving relationships -- people hunger for communities of meaning that provide ethical and spiritual purpose. They are offered instead a myriad of nationalistic, religious or racial pseudocommunities that never challenge the "look out for No. 1" mentality of the market. So people soon find that their daily lives at work or in family life are just as empty as ever...