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...sounds like Utopia, like Oz's Munchkinland after Dorothy squashed the wicked witch and everyone jumped up from hiding to do a dance. "People are turning out because of the Internet--they don't have to be mobilized," says Beck. One motivator, oddly, is nostalgia, an emotion that the Internet accelerates. Events in Seattle cast an afterglow that continues to spread in the retelling. Kelly Vaughan, 20, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University, recalls sitting at her computer last November poring over e-mail accounts of the frontline action. She instantly relayed the news to a list of about...
...coat pockets. The poor things get thoroughly frayed with all the portable equipment I jam into them every morning: CD player, Palm Pilot, e-mail pager, voice recorder, a novel for the train. Pocket PC promises to do the work of all of the above in a single 9-oz. shell (made variously by Compaq, H-P and Casio). Given that my local tailor charges me the equivalent of the national debt of a small country for sewing up all the holes in my clothing created by this gadgetry, how could I resist...
...pages. Still, if you can tolerate Medwed's sometimes grating style-her metaphors are either clichs (the rejected wife is compared to numerous broken down appliances) or are awkwardly creative ("She's followed the blue equivalent of the yellow brick road and has landed at her own fully personalized Oz")-you many get a laugh out of the ridiculous situations she writes about. Anyone in search of a thoughtful character study or emotional investment will come up short, though, as Medwed overtly explains everything that the reader could otherwise conclude on his own. Host Family has an interesting premise...
...There's no place like home. And there's really no pair of shoes like the 6B ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz." The shoes, worth estimated at $750,000, are up for sale at Christie's East's sale of Hollywood and television memorabilia...
Morris brilliantly captured his subject in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt." But he found Ronald Reagan so impenetrable that he resorted to inventing a fictionalized alter Edmund to give imaginative life and depth to "Dutch." The Wizard of Oz was a wizard indeed, and he worked great magic (the transformation of Americans' view of their country and the role of their government, for example). But Reagan could also seem to Morris an appallingly and mysteriously empty suit - banal, passive, incurious, abstracted...