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...Grove project, editor and curator Jane Shoaf Turner, embraced its complexities and contradictions, and has done an astonishing job of marshaling the talents of some 6,700 contributors. The Dictionary of Art contains more than 41,000 entries, ranging from a few lines to near books in themselves; the section on frames, for instance, runs 128 pages. Spot checks reveal none of the awful jargon that disfigures so much academic writing; all seems clear and readable, and sometimes even dryly witty. And as you browse it, you realize what an unprecedented effort of distilled and integrated scholarship it represents. Every...
...State, famous for potatoes, continuous snow in winter, and Ruby Ridge, sometimes seems like two states in one: the southern section, with its flourishing high-tech industries and conservative Republican politics, influenced by the substantial Mormon population that migrated north from Utah in the 1860s, and the more remote northern areas, filled with Idaho's notorious militias and survivalists. At some level, resentment of government seems to unite the Idaho population, probably because the Feds own 65% of the state's land, including national forest and wilderness areas; and this year's hot-button issue is the huge Idaho National...
Nowadays, when Kirrane drives the zamboni around the rink during intermissions of the men's hockey games, he is cheered by the fans in section 12 and tips his cap to them in appreciation. For Kirrane, the kids he gets to work with and meet through his job make it all worth while...
...surface, Proposition 187 is merely a piece of literature that restates obvious laws already documented. Illegal immigrants, since they are not citizens, are already not entitled to federal monies and programs. Thus, Proposition 187 appears to be pretty harmless. The proposition itself, however, is alarming. Section 5 states that so-called "suspected" persons should be denied social services such as food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children unless they provide adequate verification of their status in the state, in the form of a visa, green card or social security card. Section 6, which deals with public health...
...instance, the other night I was scanning the writing section on the third floor, investigating such titles as, Writing Down the Bones and The Gentle Art of Authorship. In the process, I found a book by Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It was not about nuclear war but writing, and I was delighted to pick it up and learn that this Pulitzer Prize-winning author got his start as the writer of Hallmark Cards' daily employee newspaper. Not to mention the advice of his public relations manager on how to write: "Rhodes, you apply...