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This Town revolves around the pursuit of four experienced Washington press hounds of the "big story" in a Clinton-esque White House. They are trailed and ultimately exposed by a reporter from that "other town," New York. Vanity, self-aggrandizement, celebrity ambitions and competitive pressures all propel the Washington journalists to chase unfounded rumors and conspiracies while major issues like nuclear weapons and education are ignored...
...desertion, by the conviction that they married the "wrong" person the first time around or that this person has "changed"? These often delusional rationales are (to put it a bit metaphorically) our genes "trying" to get us to do the kinds of things--infidelity, betrayal--that during evolution helped propel them into the next generation. Hence the human dimension of our animal behavior: it feels so rational and right. Lots of animals are violent, treacherous and nasty, but only one convinces itself that God approves...
First up will be the tough Rutgers squad. Hopefully for Harvard, it will be able to find that winning non-league element which will propel it into the next echelon. Providence 3 Harvard...
...more Israeli settlers will encourage radical elements in the Palestinian community. Hamas will ask, 'What kind of peace can be based on bringing Jews into the West Bank and Gaza?'" Netanyahu's decision on settlements will have its effect on the world stage as well. The Israeli move could propel Syria out of the lingering isolation which began with the Arab-Israeli peace process. "Syria will begin to take a leading role in the Arab world," Hamad says. "President Hafez Assad will be able to twist arms, making it impossible for Arabs like Jordan's King Hussein...
...workings of education committees. Byatt's interests here are more philological than dramatic. All her various plots underscore the mixed blessings of language, its power to obscure as well as reveal, to enslave as well as liberate. The subject is certainly worthy but not perhaps sufficiently vivid to propel readers through a long, long literary haul. Byatt writes beautifully, and passages of this novel come to brilliant life. But the net effect of the whole, as opposed to the parts, seems to be every bit as cacophonous as the original Tower of Babel...