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New York 's Walter Kirn dissents from the pack, complaining of McKibben's books in general--"his combination of arrogance and sincerity, narcissism and asceticism, is riveting and infuriating at once"--and of this book in specific--"The thesis is ancient and hard to argue with, though something in McKibben's pious manner may make one want to try."
The film stars Rip Torn and Emmy winner Andre Braugher, riveting as a priest leading his players in a drive to integrate school athletics.
USA Today 's Katy Kelly writes, "The plague problem, which should be riveting, is so well-explained that it wearies the reader."
And Springer is riveting, excruciating television.
It told the riveting story of how I--"perhaps the only self-proclaimed conservative journalist devoted to digging up stories rather than writing editorials," author of a best-selling attack on Anita Hill, and "the star reporter at the [ American ] Spectator"-- came to break the Troopergate story, and how Troopergate begat Paula Jones, and how Paula Jones begat Monica Lewinsky.