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BOSTON--Chanting "Don't kick them out, Japan, let the people keep their land," approximately 40 students, mostly from Harvard, rallied in front of the Japanese Consulate on Monday to protest the eviction of several hundred Koreans from their homes in Utoro, Japan...
...Keneally, who can play it hot or cool, tragic or comic, without forgetting the basic tricks of the trade. Never show a stick of dynamite that does not go off in a later chapter. Don't discourse on a kangaroo's boxing ability if he isn't going to kick the stuffing out of someone later...
...speech is vintage Rudnick -- a party wine with a bouquet of sentiment and the kick of rude truth. To the tart social wit of gay writers from Oscar Wilde to Joe Orton he adds irrepressible high spirits -- a tonic when so much of literature has the terminal glums. This Renaissance jester is a yea-sayer, a missionary for joy. "Usually when I'm asked why I write," says Rudnick, 35, "I reply, 'To avoid a day job.' But the truth is that there are people in real life I want to honor. It's easy to write about despair...
Last night, the Inside Edge gave a nationally televised kick-off party at the club Avalon in Boston, but the debut may have been upstaged on campus by a Harvard Lampoon parody of the magazine that was door-dropped to students yesterday...
...album opens with the title track, one of those kick-butt anthems of territorial superiority favored by old lions when the cubs get unruly. "The time has come to air my feelings," Charles proclaims. "There's just so much confusion going down." When the wary listener hears, "You got to stand out from the crowd," preparations begin immediately to endure one of those tauntingly defiant My Way-style apologias. But after this initial flirtation, Charles goes his own way, and My World becomes instead a guardedly optimistic paean to human potential. It's damn near Jacksonesque (Michael...