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...tragicomic ensemble story about a combustible family, The Corrections ($26; 568 pages) has the absorbing treacheries of married life, the comic squalors of cruise-ship travel and the shenanigans of global capitalism. It also has language that builds in powerful, rolling strides. And it has characters, the separately unraveling Lamberts, who get very deeply under your skin. So who can blame the amiable and soft-spoken author, Jonathan Franzen, if he sounds a little cheeky these days? "You can get a million people to read your book in this country," he says. "It's not a tiny audience for fiction...
...parlayed that into even closer ties with Dubya. She filled the empty vessel of the candidate's foreign policy during the campaign and now spends occasional weekends with him and his family at Camp David. She complements Colin Powell, but it's clear who is steering the ship. Her extra time with Bush, she says, "gives us a chance to step back...and talk more about our broader objectives...
...fact of the matter was that Bonds didn?t want to be in Pittsburgh, and perhaps more than that, he didn?t want to be playing for the Pirates. So he got his chance to jump ship, and zipped over to the San Francisco Giants, his father?s old team. And in recent years he has settled into something resembling a relationship with the community there, occasionally even stepping outside his hauteur to smile, sign a ball or lend his name to a charity event...
...going to take the NFL stadium to a new level." As proof, the project garnered national design awards, and its creators, Dan Meis and Ron Turner, have been hired to build or renovate a dozen high-profile sports arenas as well as brainstorm over the future of the mother ship, Madison Square Garden...
...ostensibly because it could sideswipe houses along the Bosphorus Strait, even though the waterway is 700 m wide at its narrowest. Politics is the more likely culprit. Some lawmakers worry that China?which has been looking to buy an aircraft carrier for a decade?might want to refit the ship for military use. It was sold for $20 million in 1998 before it was finished (it has no engine or rudder). The owners had threatened to abandon the Varyag, but press reports say its wait might end?if Beijing agrees to lift a domestic travel advisory discouraging Chinese tourists from...