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The main problems with this novel lie in the fact that Davidson does not know how to engage a reader. While Like Water For Chocolate, a book which Davidson has heavily imitated with her food-as-culture-and-identity-and-feminism theme, had charm and humor, as well as a...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Priest' Chronicles a Long, Boring Trip | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

In keeping with Alloro's fidelity to Italian custom, the portions are fit for an adolescent boy or a portly aging mafioso. Appetizers ($3-8) are convincingly disguised as entrees, entrees ($7-17) as next week's leftovers. Sauteed calamari arrive in a giant, steaming heap, covered by a light...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: hoppin | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

President Clinton's office on Air Force One has a small desk, a couch, magazines scattered about and, these days, a new boom box. As he flew home from Africa Thursday night, he listened to Charlie Parker and Wynton Marsalis. Like the music, his mood was a complex mix of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was In The Best Interest Of The Country | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Are these changes, these moves toward a new flexibility, somehow Mao's legacy? Despite the agony he caused, Mao was both a visionary and a realist. He learned as a youth not only how Shang Yang brought harsh laws to the Chinese people, even when they saw no need for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mao Zedong | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

But the key to this instant Chinese empire is more than energy and frugality. Yan and his business thrive on investors in New York City; New Zealand; Fort Worth, Texas; and Nashville, Tenn.; a globally scattered network of chums from Harvard Business School; ceaseless international E-mail; cell-phone calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Globalization: Get Rich Quick | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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