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...cavalier and ultra-capitalistic attitude. Most notable among the dissenters is Carl Hiaasen, a writer of zany South Florida mystery novels and celebrated columnist for The Miami Herald. His new book, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, reads like a marriage of the opinionated, highly personal journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion and the rants of Dennis Miller. One hesitates to apply the word "book" to Hiaasen's project-the slim volume bears a greater resemblance to a modern-day muckraking pamphlet, complete with attacks on the nefarious consequences of unchecked big business...
With the graduation of senior stalwarts Tom Blake and Philip Tseng this past spring, the casual observer might think that the 1998 Crimson team is a new-look, inexperienced bunch. However, five of the projected top six played in the ECAC's last year...
8.Rainbow Six, by Tom Clancy...
Many cities are vying for recognition as the first to greet the millennium, but Vancouver humbly bills itself as one of the last major centers to salute the new era. Being last has its advantages. "That makes Vancouver a great place to have the longest celebration possible," boasts Tom Esakin, president of Millennium Vancouver 2000. To keep the party going for everyone, MV2000 is focusing on community building with the motto A BETTER CITY, FOR A BETTER WORLD, IN A BETTER FUTURE...
...polls," said House Majority Whip Tom Delay last month with characteristic delicacy, "are a joke." And in that spirit, the Republicans have thumbed their nose at the American people. Americans want Clinton to stay. They oppose impeachment hearings. They want the whole thing to end. And the Republicans don't care...