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Book review
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ner poise, inner poise.” But these
mantras are unsuccessful attempts
to cope with the overwhelming na
ture of her daily life.
Bridget’s desire to become an
“irresistible sex goddess” and su
per career girl is also challenged.
Her overbearing and bullying
mother manages to obtain the key
to Bridget’s apartment and checks
up on her constantly as she tries to
turn her daughter into a television
celebrity.
Another highlight of the book
occurs when Bridget arrives at
what was intended to be a “Tarts
and Vicars” party and finds out
that the theme of the party has
been changed without her knowl
edge. 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
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“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.
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