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...gone for Danish novelist Peter Hoeg, who followed his brilliant thriller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, with a couple of mannered, too-clever fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is that Hoeg's latest novel, The Woman and the Ape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 261 pages; $23), is a disaster, part animal-rights tract and part millennial doom mongering, that looks at irritating from the underside...
PINEAPPLES, LAKES...AND SNOW...
...with Tower Records, the Gap and all--is one of America's last vestiges of anything approaching village shopping. You can purchase every present you need within a space of a few blocks from such one-and-only stores as Wordsworth Abridged, Cardullo's and the Coop. When the snow begins to fall, you almost feel like you're on the set of "It's a Wonderful Life," with the goodness of humanity surrounding...
After an exhilarating weekend of football and parties, Harvard students woke up yesterday morning to a light coat of snow on the ground and the bitter realization that The Game was really over...
...normally Democratic AFL-CIO. But this year, despite his support for the minimum-wage hike and opposition to NAFTA, labor is backing opponent Francis Pordum. Still, Quinn won $40 million for the Buffalo waterfront this year, a surefire election plum, and has sponsored legislation to create a clear federal snow-emergency plan, a hot issue in the land of the "lake effect...