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...moon itself," and an island they can sustain only in memory and illusion. "I know how to live with only a modem and a slip of plastic," says his wandering narrator at the end of this deeply melancholy and beautiful book, "but with each jolt I find I yearn for a story without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy and Affirmation | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...with Yahoo are remaking the face of global commerce. Want to snag a $900 suit for $150? Try countryroadfashions.com (but be warned: they're based in Thailand, so you'll have to take your own measurements). Looking for that hard-to-find anthropology book? Amazon.com is your best bet. Yearn to have your weekly groceries delivered to your door? Peapod.com exists to make your grocery shopping easier--and it even lets you specify how ripe you like your bananas. How about if you want to know the difference between several brands of stereo receivers? Try Compare.Net, which offers a free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Till You Drop | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...woven from the many strands--Japanese, Korean, Indian, Pakistani--of Asians in America. And he argues further that racial groupthink can stir up resentments and erect walls among the races. But Liu recognizes the importance of preserving ethnic ties, and unlike many conservatives, he resists dismissing those who still yearn for racial belonging. "While racial identity is sometimes a shackle," he writes, "it is not only a shackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From a Different Shore | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Jackson described the shared characteristics of the dream as equal treatment, opportunity, access to social goods and entitlement to those goods. All of these requirements, Jackson maintains, will build a "big tent" open to all "those who yearn to breath...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks to Hundreds at Law School on Economic Justice | 2/3/1998 | See Source »

...heard King's preaching in the South and I yearn to hear his sermons again. I keep the text of "The Dimensions of a Complete Life," my favorite sermon, on my desk. It ends in hope...

Author: By Archie C. Epps iii, | Title: A Legacy of Hope | 1/16/1998 | See Source »

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