BOOK REVIEW
A grim look at money's stranglehold on politicians
(By Robert L. Turner, Globe Staff, 8/9/2000)
When Democratic Party officials were planning to celebrate the bicentennial of the party's founding (ostensibly by Thomas Jefferson, in 1792), they sought to rally all the party faithful. So they went to the computer files of the Democratic National Committee, seeking the names and addresses of the thousands of party regulars, the ward and town committee members, the precinct workers and poll watchers, who they assumed were the backbone of the party.
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'Bee Season' spells agony for an unhappy family
(By Amy Graves, Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
Eliza is 9 years old. She's not crazy about the fourth grade, and when she comes home, she watches a lot of after-school specials (it's the 1980s, so that's all there is on TV). There's nothing remarkable about Eliza. At school she is neither picked on, like her older brother, nor picked out for achievement as a ''talented and gifted'' student, in the parlance of that era.
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A splendidly rousing sea story of a record setter
(By Michael Kenney, Globe Staff, 8/14/2000)
On August 31, 1851, the clipper ship Flying Cloud sailed into San Francisco Bay on her maiden voyage, a record-setting 89 days, 21 hours out of New York - and just 137 days after the craft had been launched at Donald McKay's shipyard in East Boston.
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Human issues, nestled in a fishing town
(By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff, 8/11/2000)
David Payne is a writer whom readers take personally, a novelist who speaks to their lives, whose books become part of their experience. He began with a flourish in 1984 with the publication of an exuberant fabulation, ''Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street.'' This was followed by another large novel, ''Early from the Dance'' and, in 1993, a shorter country cousin, ''Ruin Creek,'' which was announced as the opening volume of a projected trilogy.
BOOK REVIEW
Goldstein's dark tale of physics
(By Dorothy Clark, Globe Staff, 8/10/2000)
''Properties of Light'' could be called a work of science fiction: The science is physics, the fiction is about passion - intellectual, familial, erotic. Like physics, passion has its problems, enigmatic and even paradoxical. It is the questions posited by quantum mechanics that bring three physicists together, and the search for resolution (with its attendant variables, some of them hidden) that brings about the collapse of their world.
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