Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ending of the tale, stop reading. In fact, this would be a good point for its fans to stop watching. In the post-Soviet-era conclusion, a group of dissident critters escapes the farm and lives to witness its collapse and Napoleon's fall. We flash forward to see order and peace restored--by a handsome blond family of new human farmers. It's a tiny change, a couple of minutes in all, but a baffling one that squares with neither history nor Orwell's vision. Who are these interlopers? The Czars? Boris Yeltsin? The IMF? It's not clear...
...teacher conference is to be well prepared. Even if your first meeting is weeks away, start thinking about it now. Ask your child what concerns he has about school and what is going well. Write down your questions--about, say, the volume of homework or the class bully--in order of priority, because you'll probably be squeezed for time. Your child's teacher will start the meeting but should not dominate it. She should be prepared with samples of your child's work and should present your child's positive qualities along with the areas in which he needs...
...hoopla about the Fall TV lineup, most of the "new" shows feel numbingly familiar to me. Let's see: there are repackaged Ally reruns, a second dose of Law & Order and a Party of Five spin-off. And doesn't Once and Again sound a little too much like the old thirtysomething? I'm ready for something new, and I'm losing hope that I'll find it on prime time. So I decided to tune into TV-style programs on the Web instead. With faster 56K modems and built-in video players on Web browsers becoming standard...
...Internet is weaving itself into the fabric of the economy at a breathtaking pace; on that point the economists were in full agreement. But they stopped short of calling it a revolutionary force, on the order, say, of the development of electricity as a power source for industry in the early 20th century. They did note that the Internet, like electricity, is insinuating itself in ways that make the future unthinkable without it. Says Barry Newman, director of technology, corporate and investment banking at Banc of America Securities: "You're going to see the Internet become a core portion...
...been able to walk into a gun store, flash his driver's license and $129 and walk out with a deadly weapon. Or if he had not been able to have 200 bullets sent to him at Simon's Rock College by a mail-order arms company. To my friend Greg, there is a straightforward conclusion to be drawn from the mystery of Galen's death. "We've just got too many guns in this country. We've got to get rid of them." Anyone who reads Gone Boy will find it hard to disagree...