Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is understandable. After all, the demands placed on a representative--extensive travel, constant meetings and a lack of privacy--can pose a real burden on family life. Further, candidates must now raise hundreds of thousands of dollars just to run competitively. Months (and possibly even years) of flagrant solicitation just to keep your job is something few would want to endure. Further, in the age of "bimbo eruptions" and "I didn't inhale," skeletons seem eager to jump out of the closet at the slightest hint of public ambitions...
...story takes place in the near future, when New York residents live underground and travel via personal subway cars because of a fatally potent sun. The protagonist, fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, leaves for a recently discovered planet with her two younger brothers and her father after her mother dies. The family moves into a small colony, a town in the making, where Americans live among the planet's indigenous inhabitants, the Archbuilders. Pella eventually becomes infected by a virus that enables her to spy unnoticed on other colonists. As the plot progresses, she develops a controlling attraction for Efram...
...Priest Fainted, Catherine Temma Davidson's first novel, is another one of those lovely stories dealing with women who travel to distant lands trying to escape their mothers, only to discover--surprise!--that their lives are more similar to their mother's than they thought. Davidson also attempts to weave cooking, Greek mythology and sexual awakening into her alinear story, which ultimately tumbles like the Tower of Babel under its heavy pedanticness. Davidson, a poet, should not quit her day job. Although the language of The Priest Fainted is eloquent enough, the alinearity simply gets tire-some...
John Rickard is the visiting professor of Australian Studies and the author of Australia: A Cultural History. He is happy to talk to any student with either a research or travel interest in Australia. His e-mail address is jrickard@fas.harvard.edu...
Over the past two years, Microsoft has used its enormous financial clout and standard-setting power to dip its hands into many areas on-line: news (MSNBC), consumer Internet access (Web TV), and travel reservations. And partly for this reason, Microsoft has become extremely controversial of late. The Justice Department lawsuit filed last fall over the earlier consent degree is still ongoing, and may be expanded next month. Several states' attorneys general are investigating Microsoft's trade practices, as is the European Union. More recently, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) held committee hearings in early March questioning whether...