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...Botton, the unforgivably young and unforgivably knowing author of "The Romantic Movement" (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23) offers in his second novel a happy discourse on love and the nature of the words "I love you." De Botton comes to realize that these words can be a question, a prompt or an opening bid. "Light as a souffle, and no less addictive," saysTIME book critic Pico Iyer, "The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles."Previous TIME Daily
...World university library (with the strange exception of the faux avant-garde, silver "elbow lamps"). Since it's another sparsely attended library, you can definitely find quiet and solitude here. Robinson Hall is one of those buildings of such mediocrity that pretty much nothing short of a riot would prompt you to leave the library and explore...
...equally difficult to predict the case's immediate effects. In addition to inviting challenges to 60 years of legislation based on the Commerce Clause, the decision may prompt a new round of challenges to more recent bills like the assault-weapons ban and the Republican push to put federal limits on state-court damage awards. In his weekly radio address last Saturday, Clinton said he had ordered Attorney General Janet Reno to report within a week on how to make the school gun ban constitutional. In the meantime, Alfonso Lopez is heading to a place where firearms...
...midst of a cold war, it was afflicted with contradictions. On the one hand, America's leaders assumed they had to fight; but at the same time, the U.S. had to fight within tight, self-set limits, fearful that using too much force would prompt China to intervene...
...Right now we are saddened by the actions of the women today to prompt more court action. That's the last thing we want on Easter weekend...