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Searching for Polly The pain of a small California town has attracted nationwide attention after the brazen kidnapping of 12-year-old Polly Klaas. The girl was taken from her Petaluma home during a slumber party on Oct. 1 by a man who walked into the house and abducted...
...homegrown record label can make a huge difference too, like Seattle's Sub Pop, which produced Nirvana's early recordings. Ultimately, it's the big national labels that cash in on local sounds. Primed by their success with Seattle, the record companies are now grazing hungrily in college towns, those intrinsically hip places where collective shoe preference may run the narrow gamut from Birkenstocks to Doc Martens but ears are all wide open. The academic triangle of Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, boasts popular alternative bands like Superchunk, not to mention a label, Mammoth Records. Jay Faires, founder...
Middle East Nuts and Bolts Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met in the Egyptian resort town of Taba to begin discussing details of the transition to Palestinian self-rule, beginning in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. Among the issues: security arrangements, the size of the Palestinian-controlled zone around Jericho, the fate of thousands of Palestinians imprisoned or deported by Israel and control of water sources...
...satire. It is now p.c. to make fun of p.c. On last week's episode of Murphy Brown (arguably the most politically correct show on TV, now that Designing Women is gone), a newscaster got into trouble for calling a female fighter pilot a ''girl.'' Audience members at a town-hall meeting later overreacted with a torrent of p.c.-speak: a tall woman with glasses, for instance, demanded to be called ''vertically enhanced'' and ''visually challenged.'' The p.c. backlash is spreading across the cultural plains. A newly expanded edition of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, written by Henry...
...well as a prizewinning novelist, is never too obvious. No stereotypes jump out of the bush. Crocodile Dundee and an easy way with strangers await the next century. Two of the novel's main characters survive to sample the new age. The boy who first led Fairley into town is an important government minister at the time of World War I. His cousin is a nun and natural scientist whose correspondence with a German bee expert arouses suspicions that she is a foreign agent. With this lovely bit of linkage, Malouf closes a remarkably original book: a lyric history that...