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...Harvard softball team has a knack for creating drama out of the blase. YALE 1 HARVARD 2 YALE 3 HARVARD 9 BROWN 1 HARVARD 3 BROWN 6 HARVARD...
Jesus Christ was a carpenter. Bob Hampton is a handyman. Actually, he's an aspiring but discouraged artist spending a summer in Los Angeles as a Mr. Fix-It, but Christ haunts this novel because Bob develops an odd knack for transforming the lives of those he works for--the lonely, the helpless, the disconnected. Bob also sleeps with a lot of his clients, but he brings them clarity and color, a transcendent color that eventually finds its way onto his canvases. With this compelling work, one that requires some suspension of disbelief, See evokes an L.A. rarely seen...
Gore has never learned the knack of talking about Gore. When he stumbles, it is spectacular. Two weeks ago, he made a legitimate claim that he was one of the Internet's earliest promoters and turned it into a audacious boast that he invented it. The gaffe damaged him in an area where his contrast with Clinton is favorable: credibility. Some blame for all this falls on Gore's jumbled and evolving campaign organization, which functions like a board of directors without a chairman, leaving his vice-presidential staff with the task of damage control. Still lacking is what...
Perhaps it is no accident that Kosovo, the venerated scene of Serbia's great defeat by the Ottoman Turks in an epic battle fought in 1389, marks both the beginning and possibly the end of Milosevic's career. Milosevic has displayed an uncanny knack for defeats. His 1991 war in Croatia to retain control of the old Yugoslavia eventually ended with hundreds of thousands of Serbs forced out of their homes, farms and villages. Today they make up a refugee population living hand to mouth inside Serbia, not even granted the privilege of Yugoslav citizenship. Yet the war served...
...century resembles the work of any single SF writer, it must surely be J.G. Ballard. One might make an argument for the prescience of William Burroughs (if you're a junkie) or the uncanny knack of William Gibson (if you're a career computer criminal). But Ballard is surely the most insightful artist the genre ever produced. While most SF writers of his generation were down at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory cheering on the moon landings, Ballard was in a London art gallery throwing a Pop Art happening with a crashed car and a topless model. Ballard's approach...