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...sounds of life in Harvard Square--that is, the grinding of jackhammers and the buzz of drills--have dulled in recent years, another victim of the recession...
...Clinton-Gore appeal is that corporate buzz word, synergy: when the images of the two are fused in the public mind, the sum appears greater than the parts. "There's a lot of discussion in our focus groups where people are excited about the two of them together," says Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "It translates into an anticipation of energy and activism in the White House." Maybe so, but this Doublemint campaign could be reaching its natural limits -- too often the artful tactics of late summer turn into tired cliches by Election Day. Still, there is a chemistry between Clinton...
...Volcano Lover, her fifth work of fiction, is a mild cerebral aphrodisiac. It is the sort of book that Sontag would probably call determinedly middlebrow. Her publisher, eager to start a buzz, compares it to "the postmodern potboilers of Umberto Eco and A.S. Byatt...
...larger, basically positive phenomenon: a devolution of power not only upward toward supranational bodies and outward toward commonwealths and common markets but also downward toward freer, more autonomous units of administration that permit distinct societies to preserve their cultural identities and govern themselves as much as possible. That American buzz word empowerment -- and the European one, subsidiarity -- is being defined locally, regionally and globally all at the same time...
...consecrate their Saturdays to violence. But their battles are ritualistic in their choreographed precision, and the effects on the participants are mind bending as the adrenaline pumps, the fists fly and the boots drive into the sides and skulls of the fallen. "They talk about the crack, the buzz, and the fix," Buford records. "They talk about having to have it, of being unable to forget it when they do, of not wanting to forget it -- ever." After participating in one battle between rival team supporters, Buford recalls the "absolute completeness" of the experience...