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This year, he appears to be enjoying his temporary return to the leading post of City Council and School Committee meetings. Until a mayor is elected, Reeves--the senior member of the council--will serve as acting mayor...
...results of this cultural struggle were announced by Zorn last week, and they're not encouraging for those who yearn to return to simpler times. NotComGuy lost. He snapped under the strain. "You kind of get addicted," he confessed, "to being in touch with everything at all times." Cut off from his e-mail, he felt alone, adrift. "You can exist without it, sure," he said. "You're just sort of living in a different milieu." Worse, the journalist learned he wasn't able to write coherent sentences without his word processor. "The new style becomes a scribbly, scratchy mess...
...Mandabach (creators of The Cosby Show, Roseanne and That '70s Show), which are programming the network; and--hallelujah!--Oprah Winfrey, who will contribute two shows (and, in 2002, reruns of her talk show). She even snared Candice Bergen to act as host of a nighttime talk show, Exhale. The return on these investments and efforts will rest largely on Laybourne's vision of how the Internet will change media and of what 21st century women want--and aren't getting--from...
Plato's lonely quest for the truth involves some tricky time traveling that takes him back to London during the Mouldwarp era. (Those familiar with Plato's Republic will note with interest that the destination of this journey is a vast cave.) The tales Plato tells on his return do not sit well with the governing authorities, and Plato meets a Socratic fate, put on trial for corrupting the young. By this point, Ackroyd's lively tale has shaded into an invigorating meditation on the changelessness, after no matter how many eons, of human nature and its uneasiness with...
...DRAWBACKS] They had to return...