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...brand-new Camden Yards knockoff that puffed up civic pride even while the school system was going down the tubes. Not many tears will be shed for Candlestick Park in San Francisco and County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Kingdome in Seattle if and when those yards bite the dust...
...dubious sort of good luck that the publication of her slightest and fluffiest novel has brought McMillan her greatest reward. The new book starring "Winston" burbles along cheerfully but lacks the satirical bite of Waiting to Exhale. There isn't much to the story, which amounts to woman meets boy, gets boy, with no second act, so the author will have to crank up some misery if she carries out her plans to write the screenplay. You can't have a movie without conflict...
Your report on the farm bill that left in place price supports for the sugar industry needs clarification [NATION, April 8]. The assertion that domestic sugar policy takes a "$1.4 billion yearly bite out of U.S. consumers' pockets" is a false conclusion based on a General Accounting Office report that was soundly criticized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It incorrectly assumes that every pound of the nation's sugar needs could be met with purchases on the thinly traded and highly volatile world market. In reality, the market is made up of highly subsidized sugar that has been dumped...
...back home as a live-in souvenir. "It's a dubious sort of good luck that the publication of her slightest and fluffiest novel has brought McMillan her greatest reward," says TIME's John Skow. 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' burbles along cheerfully but lacks the satirical bite of 'Waiting to Exhale. There isn't much to the story, which amounts to woman meets boy, gets boy. The author will have to crank up some misery if she carries out her plans to write the screenplay. You can't have a movie without conflict...
...Democrats. I have always believed that both Republicans and Democrats want to spend too much of our tax revenues, but they want to spend the money on different things. One issue both parties agree on is that payments to Big Business must continue, because they do not want to bite the hand that feeds their campaign funds. We must have election-finance reform and we must have it now, or nothing will ever change. LYNN SCHURRER Stillwater, Minnesota...