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...journalists, aid workers, teachers, medical staff and entrepreneurs who have made the war-ravaged city a temporary home, the Serena was an oasis of tranquility. Its cafe served a good cup of coffee in a land of tea; its spa was a place for a hot shower in a snow-bound city where constant power outages reduce bathing to a bucket of water heated on a wood-burning stove; its gym offered a safe place to exercise in a country where women...
ESPECIALLY GOOD are two segments in the first half of the show. "Winter Wonderland" gives a quick bittersweet run through of all sorts of wintry wonders--Christmas dinner, snow-bound carts, snow angels, iceball fights, and the spectacle of two curious kids accidentally knocking over their Christmas tree...
THEN CAME THE SNOWS. Bilandic was inexplicably helpless before the elements and voters, raised on an image of "the city that works," grew increasingly irritated. The incumbent tried advertising with a focus on the good times. His T.V. spots featured the sunny lakefront Chicagofest of last summer, when the Mayor was at the peak of his powers. The challenger showed snow-bound commuters and photos of herself with Daley. Laboring under Byrne's verbal barrage and a charge that one of his aides was improperly awarded a no-bid snow-removal contract, Bilandic played the martyr--an ill-advised ploy...
...snow-bound Crimson golf team will be escaping Cambridge over the spring break for those Elysian Fields of golf, the emerald fairways of Florida. The eight golfers embarking on the Southern sojourn look to be the nucleus of Harvard's strongest squad since the Crimson qualified for the NCAA tournament four years...
...town McPhee focuses on in the last half of the book, you can count on one hand the adults who are native born. The rest have arrived at some point between youth and retirement, staying on as long as a lifetime, or as briefly as one miserable, snow-bound winter. McPhee is fascinated by these people. Why did they come? What were they looking for, what were they running from? And what kind of person can survive--literally survive--the isolation, the forty-below winters, the constant and unseen dangers that one incurs every day in the wilderness...