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People hankering for a peaceful, rustic existence should probably curl up with Edna O'Brien's splendid new novel Wild Decembers (Houghton Mifflin; 272 pages; $24) before moving to the sticks. Things are not as pleasant in the tiny western Irish village of Cloontha as the scenery suggests. Michael Bugler has arrived fresh from a sheep farm in Australia to claim the land left to him by a deceased uncle, and the newcomer's presence stirs up the villagers. Especially agitated is Joseph Brennan, whose ancestral farm borders Bugler's property. Brennan tries to be neighborly, but his true spirit...
...team of Lane and Schneiter-- both pleasant, silver-haired men, quick with a laugh--are a bibliophilic Laurel and Hardy...
...most pleasant surprise of the weekend came against Villanova. What was expected to be a close game early on quickly became a blowout. The Crimson offense moved as crisply as it has all year...
...their leaders to be fiscally prudent, reversed field and put forth a tax cut smaller than Bush's. But Bush dug in further on his $483 billion tax cut, insisting he was standing on principle but sounding like a guy who's got his back up. He made some pleasant noises about New York Governor George Pataki's gun-control plan, which follows the polls, but Bush is tightly tied to the pro-gun lobby in Texas...
...However, Jack Fuller, the president of the Tribune's publishing unit, has repeatedly affirmed his commitment to journalistic integrity. Fuller's reputation is in pleasant contrast to that of the editor of the Los Angeles Times, Michael Parks, who has become notorious for his attempts to break down the wall of separation between business and newsgathering. Furthermore, the Tribune's local media outlets enjoy a significant degree of autonomy, with the majority of decisions being made on a local level...