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...settled back in my canvas chair, gin and tonic in one hand, up to my ankles in black volcanic sand, peeping through a curtain of banyan leaves at the gentle splendor of sunset. This was Sea World Club, Maumere's premier dive resort: an unpretentious place with neat thatch-roofed bungalows, where sarong-wrapped staff, flashing wide smiles, shuffle along paths paved with blue pebbles...
...latest upgrade to the Mac OS--10.2, if you're keeping count. Previous versions of OS X were criticized for being slower than their predecessor, OS 9, but Jaguar zooms on by. Graphics and text look smoother than ever and are put to good use in some neat new programs. There's iChat (compatible with AOL Instant Messenger), in which conversations take place in little speech balloons. Sherlock 3 will find movies, flight times and Yellow Pages listings in a click or two without the hassle of actually getting on the Internet. And there's a great new spam filter...
Debby is a self-destructive New Jersey barfly who is overlooked by men--even though she is played by, and thus looks like, Uma Thurman. If you buy that, you will buy that Debby has a thick Joisey accent but Mom (Gena Rowlands) does not, that there's a neat pop-psych explanation (Dad abandoned the family) for her low self-esteem and bouts of stress-induced blindness, and that the Garden State really is the stereotyped, Camaros-and-Bruce milieu offered here by director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). In which case, I've got a turnpike I would like...
...amusingly arrogant demand for intellectual control. But the U.S. is facing an acute life-or-death situation in which it needs no formal doctrine to permit a first strike against those who wish to kill us. For Elliott to warn that our prerogative to strike pre-emptively without a neat list of rules invites "international anarchy" is to advocate suicide. It's like saying "Give me order, or give me death!" PATRICK DOLLARD Beverly Hills, Calif...
...offered them sexual favors over the bitterly cold winter of 1804-05, were described as good neighbors. The Lemhi Shoshone, Lewis wrote, were "not only cheerful but even gay, fond of gaudy dress...generous with the little they possess, extreemly honest..." He admired the Chinook for their canoes, "remarkably neat, light and well adapted for riding high waves" but disparaged their "well-known treachery...