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...AFRO-AM REDUX...
...American Booksellers' Association convention in Las Vegas and in the New York Times Book Review. How to explain all this fuss about the fate of an imaginary character? Well, Harry C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom first appeared 30 years ago in Rabbit, Run and then re-emerged in Rabbit Redux (1971) and Rabbit Is Rich (1981). A lot of readers have periodically checked the progress of their lives against that of the onetime high school basketball star from eastern Pennsylvania. Rabbit's demise seems a gloomy reminder of individual mortality. Fortunately, despite all the chatter, there is an escape clause...
...President sat and watched the remainder of the show, including a tableau -- Moses redux? -- of a baby Saddam rocking in a cradle in the marshes. Remarked a Western diplomat: "Even to veteran Saddam watchers, this spectacle reached new heights...
...stalking like Groucho. At the end, three ghostly Shmoos chase Daffy down the street as his exorcised client drawls a warm, "Y'all come back now, y'hear?" Anyone who grew up on Warners cartoons is likely to say the same to Ford, Lennon and their wondrous little Daffy redux...
...Dalton Redux: In an unprecedented move,President Bok announced that he will ask a groupof 15 outside legal experts--who overwhelminglysupported Dalton during her initial tenure bid inthe spring--to evaluate the arguments of heropponents in the Law Faculty. Bok's decision toseek advice from the experts signaled to manyobservers an admission of flaws within the LawSchool's tenure process, which Dalton and herattorney Nancy Gertner charge is "terriblyunfair...