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...SENSE, Mario Vargas-Llosa's latest novel, The War at the End of the World, is a retelling of an old story. Ever since the Holy Grail was lost, men and women have forsaken everything for the sake of eternal salvation. But the temporal results are seldom beneficial. Usually the participants end up like they do here, dying violently with a prayer on their lips...
Contrary to the direst forecasts of terminal gridlock and rampaging tourism, Los Angeles has seldom seemed so vacant or livable since freeways were invented. A strange term, "freeflow conditions," has been revived, and "Black Friday," the first day all the downtown venues were in session at once, has been survived. The most worrisome congestion may be in the sky, where security men, sheiks and chairmen of the board are churning around in helicopter jams. "All of the talk about smog and heat and traffic scared a lot of people away," said Charles O'Connell, the Olympic traffic-operations chief...
...large, stable democracies like the U.S., political landmarks are seldom so crisply delineated, so easy to pick out from a cluttered backdrop. Even the most circumspect observers around the U.S., ordinarily careful to qualify their generalizations, saw the news, whether it heartened or disturbed them, as profoundly significant, even revolutionary. The choice, said G. Mermen Williams, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and the state's former Governor, "is at the cutting edge of history. Sexual equality is overdue by a generation. Changes like this have given courage to the fainthearted to do what they wanted...
Indeed, all he needs to do is observe his children. Two fast-selling books are devoted to their antics, and a third collection, Father Seldom Knows Best, will hit the racks next year. In those, along with a five-day-a-week radio call-in show and his "Off the Beat" column, he seems always to be reversing 9-to-5 clichés. Just before a meeting with his woman boss, for instance, he spilled hot tea on his pants. "I stand in front of her desk," he wrote, "my cheeks are flaming. My thighs are steaming." When...
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