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WHILE MOST READERS HAVE BEEN LOOKing the other way, writer Eric Kraft has turned out a series of whiz-bang novellas about a kid named Peter Leroy who does a lot of neat stuff, like thinking, squidging for clams with his toes and noticing the fantastic legs of his new science teacher, Miss Rheingold. Now the out-of-print novellas have been published by Crown as LITTLE FOLLIES ($22) and Peter's new adventures as WHERE DO YOU STOP? ($15). Kraft misses endless opportunities to be poisonously cute about a smart boy who likes words (spline, ontology) and worries about...
...been growing steadily, surges ahead. The red iron gates have eased open a crack, enough to let through a single file of supplicants. Inside, 12 Somali guards dressed in battle fatigues and armed with M-16 rifles issue orders. Wielding 3-ft. wooden switches, they herd the people into neat rows at the rear of a large earthen courtyard. In 30 minutes more than 2,000 people are seated on the ground while others stream in: nomad women wrapped in black shawls, grandmothers in tattered sackcloth, lone children naked but for a makeshift shirt. At one point the crowd seethes...
...feelings conjured up by Gore and Clinton were invented. There is no doubt how much Gore suffered for his son. And one can only imagine Clinton's closeness to his mother. The cynicism lies not in counterfeiting a feeling but in packaging a genuine feeling into a neat anecdote contoured for political effect...
...both have a reputation for being "all business." Each works in silence with steely concentration, coming down hard on herself when a move isn't going right and sometimes getting teary with frustration. Away from the gym, both are straight A students who particularly like math. Each is compulsively neat, and both are so well organized that they answer every piece of fan mail by hand. Favorite TV shows are mutual: Cosby and Arsenio Hall. Zmeskal thinks an appearance on Arsenio would be cool; all color drains out of Miller's pale complexion when the possibility is mentioned. Both...
...Georgians and Tajik, among others, in breaking free from Moscow has encouraged separatist movements inside Russia. Tatars, Chechen, Ingush and Yakut are demanding either greater autonomy within the Russian Federation or full independence. In many areas, though, ethnic groups are so thoroughly mixed that it is impossible to draw neat border lines between their respective turfs. Any attempt to do so only creates new minority problems: a Serb minority in Croatia, for example, instead of a Croat minority in a Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. That leads at best to severe tensions, at worst to savage wars between peoples who once lived...