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...Dark Age coming but the dawn of the Newt Age. So shake off your gloom, doom and Newtophobia. Let there be color and hope...
Apart from the ability to shake his head and an occasional involuntary flailing of his arms, the 52-year-old Sampedro is a prisoner within a paralyzed body. Propped up in bed in the farmhouse where he lives with his brother, sister-in-law and his aged father, he can see from his window the coast at Xuno and the restless Atlantic beyond. It was at this beach 26 years ago that Sampedro, a mechanic, dived into a rock pool and struck his head on the bottom...
...about the Iris family in a nameless Connecticut hamlet. Augusta Iris is a sad woman, who, abandoned by her husband, can't bear the thought of him living without her. The story is told from alternating points of view, between Augusta and her two sons who unsuccessfully try to shake their mother's sadness. Ultimately, they manage to get on with their lives, thanks to an outsider. TIME book reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls the book an "intelligent and moving first novel" with successful portrayals of characters who "seem withered by their inability to achieve the closeness they yearn...
...foresees the withering away -- thanks to the private access to technology -- of nation- states as they now artificially exist, of centralized authority, of outmoded political alliances and of all old-fashioned restraints on entrepreneurial imaginations. It is not hard to grasp why Gingrich the conservative outsider found this prospective shake-up attractive. But now that he has become the ultimate insider, the Speaker's reaction to the rich potential for cyberspace anarchy -- which apparently worries neither the Tofflers nor Gilder -- will be interesting to watch. Putting congressional proceedings online, which Gingrich has already facilitated, is one thing. Pornography...
...known as "the Republicans' favorite Democrat" because of his conservative views on defense. He was picked for the job not because he was close to Clinton but because of his resume. A former Navy Under Secretary and arms-control negotiator, Woolsey was seen as the perfect man to shake up what had become a bloated intelligence bureaucracy...