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...clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex--and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk. His is a graphic version of the anomie found in a Raymond Carver short story, with a social-historic sweep and unexpected, if fleeting, grace notes. And that may be this melancholy book's uplifting message: even in the most emotionally barren settings, there is still something not to deaden us but to make us stronger...
Dewey, on the cover, above, ended up the nominee, with Warren his running mate. Exulted TIME, which back then often reflected Luce's Republican leanings: "Barring a political miracle, it was the kind of ticket that could not fail to sweep the Republican Party back into power" (miracles happen). The magazine was also fulsome in its coverage of the speech by Luce's wife: "The roar of applause was punctuated by waves of laughter as blonde ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce voiced the thesis of her speech; that Harry Truman is 'a gone goose.' The Democrats, she said, were divided...
They were right: For two years, and in ever-increasing measures, the City of Brotherly love has undergone the urban equivalent of a frenzied (and somewhat haphazard) spring cleaning, as crews polish highly visible districts to a reflective shine and sweep less promising areas under a carpet of anonymity. (Actually, anonymity may be reserved for the lucky neighborhoods: Residents of Philadelphia's struggling Logan triangle were probably wishing for relative invisibility last week when city bulldozers started plowing the neighborhood's modest 80-year-old houses, crumbling the homes into the landfill that had threatened to swallow them for years...
...computer specialists insist that Carnivore is actually a pussycat of a program. "The tool," or simply "it," as the program is now gingerly called, doesn't sweep the Internet for key words in text or subject line. Rather, deployed within an Internet service provider network known to be used by a criminal suspect, it searches out unique "authentication strings" - screen name, password, telephone number - that are generated whenever the suspect connects to the ISP. All the e-mails identified by those strings are downloaded to an FBI computer housed in a closed container at the ISP office. When the surveillance...
...care package for my trip. Burlington has tougher challenges than Fort Madison. The much bigger, grittier downtown was built for the industrial railroad hub that Burlington once was, and big, boxy buildings sit vacant now. But just as in Fort Madison, there is something worth saving here, where neighborhoods sweep up gracefully from the banks of the Mississippi to form an amphitheater with terrific views of downtown and the bridge that spokes majestically across the river to Illinois...