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Rick Bass drew good reviews in 1992 with The Ninemile Wolves, a moody nonfiction report of a Canadian wolf pack that crossed the U.S. border a few years ago and colonized one of the western states. But Bass's fiction (The Book of Yaak, In the Loyal Mountains) seems to get categorized as good-with-an-asterisk. He's regional. (So was Wallace Stegner, of course, until he became a national monument.) Bass may reach monument or even wilderness-area status in time, but for the moment he gathers honorable obscurity, and blackflies, on the shelf reserved for nature writers...
...Crying Wolf...
...Over on the Mir, David Wolf appears to have been somewhat more successful at converting his two Russian colleagues ? the space station trio had smoked turkey for dinner...
...vote-getter in this month's City Council election, would not confirm that he is throwing his hat in the ring but said that if he runs for any position next year it will be for state representative. To win, Galluccio would have to unseat incumbent Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge), who defeated him in a close race for state representative last year by only 90 votes...
Glenn S. Koocher '71, a Cambridge political analyst, described the 1996 showdown between Galluccio and Wolf as a "classic town-versus-gown" election. The race pits Galluccio, "the lunch-pail democrat" against Wolf, "the limousine liberal," quipped Koocher, who hosts a local public-access television show on city politics...