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...hope our gift means the directorship will continue to be held by people of Nancy's caliber," Sosland said. "And that talented students like Rob will enjoy the pursuit of knowledge and effective communication through writing...
Happily, Hornby does not rely on pop-cultural allusion to limn his characters' inner lives, but uses it instead to create a rich, wry backdrop for them. His hero is Rob Fleming, an aging, contemplative slacker who owns a London record shop and enjoys rattling off lists of his top five favorite Elvis Costello songs or episodes of Cheers. When Rob's friends suggest that he should test women with a questionnaire about their favorite artists and musicians, Rob jokes that it is "intended to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might at a later date...
...Rob is ultimately a great deal more than the total of his brand-name likes and dislikes. High Fidelity focuses on his efforts to regain the love of an ex-girlfriend, and throughout, Rob is drawn poignantly as a man who has loved up and fallen down--enamored of women who are too beautiful and accomplished to stay with him. Hornby is as fine an analyst as he is a funny man, and his book is a true original...
...Whether it's Medicare, Medicaid, student loans or the earned-income tax credit, which lets the working poor keep more of their paychecks, the usually fractious Democrats in Congress are arguing in unison that the G.O.P. doesn't just want to balance the budget. Rather, the Republicans want to rob the middle class to pay for a tax cut that will give most of its benefits to people who already have plenty of money...
...Gorton's go-for-broke concentration on the Northeast and a slice of the West. Wilson hopes to score well on Feb. 20 in pro-choice New Hampshire, where he is already running a $35,000-a-week series of TV ads. After New Hampshire, Wilson would like to rob Gramm of the Feb. 27 primary in Arizona. Wilson then hopes to win at least two, maybe more, of the five states in the March 5 New England primary. Gorton proposed using that as a "slingshot" into the media-mad New York primary just two days later...