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Wearing a Playboy bunny costume complete with a cotton tail, Bridget’s embarrassing situa tion leaves readers laughing to the point of tears. While Bridget’s intentions are good, th§y don’t always work out the way she hopes. For example, she plans an elegant dinner party for her birthday. But the fancy dishes she tries to whip up burn, the soup turns blue and the dinner becomes a disaster. Fielding’s book, which is based in England, uses British humor and references such as “Oh, Bloody Hell” and “Bastard!” that are effective in keeping the journal entries entertaining. Overall, Bridget comes across as the epitome of all females, with her flaky friends, unusual parents, obsessions over male phone calls, a pregnancy scare and her search that finally leads her to “true love.” With its funny female dilemmas and pet peeves of single life, this is the kind of book to read all alone under the covers on a rainy day with a cup of hot chocolate. Lisa Toth is the features/Pulse editor for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached at lisatoth@dailyemerald.com. Conference continued from page 1 “We feel very good about the diver sity we saw here,” he said. “We had a great turnout of women, church groups, labor and artists, especially. ” Zupan said the event, which was held mainly in Grayson Hall and the EMU, had two primary goals: to ed ucate and to help organize a grass roots peace movement. One of Zu pan’s main concerns was “preaching to the converted.” “It isn’t always a bad idea for us to be preaching to the choir, though, be cause there are a lot of people who had been active who were no longer as involved as they used to be,” Zu pan said. “Some of them have taken an indefinite leave of absence (from activism), and that’s not good. ” Originally scheduled as a small er event focused on economic and cultural globalization, the confer ence was changed to focus on the at tacks of Sept. 11 and subsequent U.S. response. Keynote speaker Stephen Zunes, chairman of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at San Francisco State University, was added to ad dress U.S. foreign policy. Zunes brought the audience of nearly 600 to its feet several times Friday night at the McDonald Theatre with his critical speech. He drew wild ap plause when he slammed his fist on the podium and shouted, “These policies won’t change until people go down to the Congressional of fices, sit down and refuse to leave until we’re carried off by the police.” Other conference events includ ed an art show, performances by po litical bands and a few independent films. A concert by Spearhead im mediately followed Zunes’ speech. “I’m here to tell people that you can bomb the world into pieces, but you can’t bomb it into peace,” lead singer Michael Franti said. Perhaps the strongest charge lev eled against the government at the conference came from Ann Fagan Ginger, the executive director of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute. She said that because the Constitu tion requires honoring of all treaties, and the United Nations Charter is a treaty, the government is obligated under constitutional law to obey the charter. The charter prohibits the use of force in retaliation without United Nations approval. Therefore the United States is not only in viola tion of international law, but also its own law, according to Ginger. She also said that the United States response “is disturbing,” and “this new McCarthyism is not amusing.” Several community members said they attended the conference to learn about issues not being dis cussed in mainstream society. “I’m here to find out about the other side of things, stuff I just haven’t heard about yet,” said Alex Lowe, a sophomore physics major at the University. Cottage Grove resident Alice Bak er said the conference was “very in formative” and that “it really shows how much I didn’t know before. “I think the government fucked up, and I’d like to know what alter natives are available, so it’s a good thing I’m here,” Baker said. Some felt the conference was not liberal enough, though. At a round table discussion Saturday night, an audience member was critical that a panel at a peace conference could en dorse “violence and assassination.” Zunes and Tammam Adi, the head of Eugene’s Islamic Cultural Center, refuted the notion that they support assassinations, but defended their support for limited military action. “We have to stop bin Laden and bring him to justice,” Adi said, “and it’s nobody’s right to tell someone that ‘I don’t believe in self defense, so you shouldn’t either.’” Marty Toohey is a freelance reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. .012797 Now Open and Serving Allann Brothers Coffee! 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