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...reluctance to surrender these individual visions that fuels the collective fascination with one another’s failures. Suburban desperation is no new project for novelists and with his riskless and stilted prose, Amidon does little to build upon the motif. Tired and clunky language encumbers the novel, and thus, like the characters within, it never achieves its modest promise.The book opens with an alarm at Doyle Cutler’s house and, although nothing concrete has happened, it is clear that that Cutler is a man to look out for. Cutler has all the trappings of a villain?...
...last battle, they defend their position with human shields: Tamil women and children. But the Tigers are not the Tamil population, and it does not follow that the legitimate claims of those who see them as freedom fighters should be unduly ignored. It’s been total war thus far, and both the state and the tigers have committed severe human-rights violations (the state itself has refused to allow the United Nations Human Rights Council to conduct an investigation). It is in Sri Lanka’s best interest not to pretend that ethnic violence on both sides...
...encroachment on habitat. The pictures in "10 Species on the Brink" show nine truly endangered species, then throw in the polar bear, which is 10 times as numerous as any other animal depicted, to try to make the climate-change link. An otherwise fine issue on extinction is thus marred by a gratuitous climate-change reference that is inapplicable and misleading. You can do better - and should. Fred Gray, Springfield...
...parties have thus left the door wide open for smaller rivals and independent candidates to move in and claim some of the youth vote for themselves. In Bangalore, G.R. Gopinath, an army captain and founder of one of India's first budget airlines, is promising to bring corporate efficiency and military discipline to city government. Meera Sanyal, the head of ABN Amro in India, was motivated by the November terrorist attacks to run for office in south Mumbai. Even Advani, the BJP's prime-ministerial candidate, is facing an independent challenge, from Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer and prominent social activist...
...Foundation president Langdale said names of contributors will not be released because some donors prefer anonymity. He also would not disclose the exact total raised thus far. But other sources reported commitments totaling more than a third of the $300 million projected for the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which will include a museum and research institute to be built on a 25-acre parcel...