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Winter Hours is an eclectic collection, including interpretations of Poe, Frost, Whitman and Oliver herself, along with several carefully crafted essays that reflect the Oliver's interest in personal growth through nature and use her personal experiences as a frame of reference. The book hops, often with little warning, from topic to topic and from literary form to literary form. But while its busy structure may be somewhat disconcerting, the clarity of each of Oliver's pieces and the meaning of her argument make up for its abrupt transitions...
Combined with the national winning experience of Fallows and Lenhart--who have rowed together since attending Walt Whitman High School near Washington D.C.--the crew is poised for more great accomplishments. Yet, discussion is seldom made at the boathouse of individual merits. The focus of the crew is on the group identity of the boat, and not on the accolades of any individual...
...admission by New Jersey, the result of a two-month investigation that revealed that 77 percent of cars searched by state troopers were driven by blacks or Hispanics, was proclaimed by New Jersey governor Christine Whitman herself. While the visibility of the announcement -- Whitman is a rising star in national Republican politics and is running for the Senate in 2000 --will highlight the problem for many people, for most African-Americans, ?this will not come as a bombshell,? says TIME reporter Harriet Barovick. ?Many will remain skeptical that the mere revelation will bring any immediate changes.? Perhaps. But Governor Whitman...
...favorite poet ever since the ninth grade"--but his readings of the poems and of the man are shrewd. Frost had what might be called a limited greatness. Parini's dust jacket calls him "the only truly 'national poet' America has yet produced." No. That would still be Whitman...
...racial profiling, blacks and Latinos charge, New Jersey police pull over a disproportionate number of minority drivers, then look for a crime or violation to charge them with. A study found that the troopers are five times as likely to target blacks as they are whites. Governor Christine Todd Whitman fired the state-police superintendent this month for defending his officers by saying minorities are more involved than whites in drug trafficking...