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...least in part to its June selection by the Oprah Book Club, here comes Kingsolver's new novel, Prodigal Summer (HarperCollins; 444 pages; $26), which is something of a return to the author's earlier form. It is an altogether lighter and more easygoing affair than its immediate predecessor. Its setting has narrowed from the vast heart of Africa to a mountain and valley in southern Appalachia over the course of a single hot and unusually rainy summer. Its subject is not the clash of ideologies but the rhythms of nature and man's misguided attempts to interfere with them...
...simple answer is that it doesn't even attempt to. Packaged and shipped barely a year after the original, BW2 is a painfully mediocre, decidedly unimaginative horror movie that does little more than ride the first Blair Witch's coattails and proves every bit as derivative as its predecessor was clever. The first mistake was in thinking that a workable sequel could even be produced-copying the "documentary" format of the original would simply be redundant and doing anything else would destroy the entire spirit of Blair Witch. But hey, when you can potentially make $30 million in a single...
...movie, in complete disarray. The rest of the film degenerates into nonsensical hocus pocus as the rattled group retreats to Jeff's abandoned-factory-turned-electronic-haven and, one-by-one, succumb to delusion and paranoia. By this point, BW2 has long since abandoned any perceptible connection with its predecessor and has become closer in spirit to Sam Raimi's blood-spattered cult classic Evil Dead, minus the kinetic over-the-top flair that made that film such a guilty pleasure...
...unpredictable, dangerous story, Rees notes, and "I've been lucky to have the great support of our Palestinian correspondent, JAMIL HAMAD, and military affairs reporter AHARON KLEIN, as well as advice from my predecessor, LISA BEYER, who is now a senior writer in New York." Still, the story is particularly sad for a correspondent in a region where historic steps on the path to peace have been taken in recent years. "I've been touched by the deep sense of disappointment--almost depression--in my Israeli and Palestinian friends," says Rees. "Their hopes, built over the past seven years, have...
Tesauro, a law professor and former advocate general at the European Court of Justice, was named to his post in 1998 and quickly set about giving the Authority real teeth. It helps that the country's current Prime Minister, Giuliano Amato, was Tesauro's predecessor. In the past two years, the Authority has imposed more fines than in the previous eight years combined. Mario Libertini, who teaches industrial law at the University of Rome, says Amato brought tremendous prestige to the Authority, but he notes that the body took on greater force after it started to levy heavy fines...