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...predicts a noisy reception for "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich" by Kevin Phillips (Broadway; May 14). "The influence of money on government is now, more than ever, a hot political issue. With a grand historical sweep that covers more than three centuries, Phillip's astute analysis of the effects of wealth and capital upon democracy is both eye-opening and disturbing...Lucidly written, scrupulously argued and culturally wide-ranging, this is an important and deeply original analysis of U.S. history and economics. FORECAST: Filled with tables and graphs and a rather dense text, this...
...CZECH POINT: PW is overwhelmed by "Prague" by Arthur Phillips (Random House; June 18), giving it a starred box, its highest accolade. "Everything about this dazzling first novel is utterly original, including the title?. It's about a group of young American (and one Canadian) expatriates living in Budapest in 1990, just after the Communist empire has collapsed and the point of 'Prague' is that it's the place everyone would rather be, except they have all somehow settled for Budapest as second best to their idealized Central European city?. What happens in this novel is not nearly so important...
Rice hurler Phillip Humber held the Crimson scoreless on just five hits over the first six innings to earn the victory...
...There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And now Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, his first Australian foray. "Yes, I'm from this place but I've been away for a while," says Doyle, 49, in his manic Mandarin-tinged accent, "so maybe I come back with a slightly different...
...Summers really wanted to remind the faculties of the existence of the statement, he could have done that without adding any language to the document. He would have looked far less heavy-handed and accomplished even more if he had taken a cue from Professors Phillip A Kuhn and James Engell—who suggested reaffirming the statement in a September Faculty Council meeting—and created some Faculty forum for a reminder and discussion. Certainly, consulting the full Faculty instead of just the Faculty Council would have reduced the appearance of autocracy and would have prompted the body...