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...high-tech mecca as nothing less than an existential journey. From the opening chapter of The Nudist on the Late Shift (Random House; 248 pages; $25), when he gushes about "meeting young people at the proving point of their lives who risked it all and would either succeed wildly or go down tragically," Bronson is on a crusade to capture the romance of this seemingly soulless patch of Northern California...
Wild, Wild West poses this not very pressing question: Can a comedy--we use that term in the broadest possible sense--costing something north of $100 million hope to succeed solely on the basis of special effects, cross-dressing and a vertically challenged villain? The depressing answer, given the apparently endless supply of adolescents with nothing better to do in the summer, is probably...
...most strident, Mahbubani writes with a diplomat's charm, gleefully untangling political knots into simple threads. The book has a special force because it comes from a man who is a prototype 21st century leader--he has his own URL--and a leading candidate to one day succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secretary-General. That pedigree is surely responsible for some of his buzz, but the ambassador's book is anything but a faddish flash...
...Over in New Delhi, of course, there?s plenty of reason to celebrate. India?s diplomatic victory was palpable, and even though it lost hundreds of men in the process, its military campaign to eject the intruders also looked set to succeed if diplomacy failed. So where once it looked like a sticky wicket for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pakistan?s Kashmir adventure may yet turn out to have been just the tonic for his embattled government as he faces Sonia Gandhi in September?s election...
These are admirable developments (at least in the eyes of those who still believe socialism can succeed). But they are somehow incongruous in a country where the national beverage is champagne (or perhaps a fine red wine) and the average citizen more concerned with appearances and cuisine than politics...