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...this unceasing sardonic disdain and unforgiving attitude toward people's flaws becomes a little tiresome, and so it is a relief to read "Fury," which is the best and most surprising story in the book. It is one from which Savage is absent until the very end, appearing as the narrator with a contrived-seeming entrance that makes us think Theroux wrote the story and then haphazardly adapted it to fit into the formula of the book...
Opening statements by the candidates concentrated on the problems of housing, crime, education, redeveloping the neighborhood, and the problems of minorities-one thing noticeably absent from the discussion was the mayor himself, who has recently come under sharp attack for alleged corruption in his administration...
...Walesa's release, saying only that he "did not confirm" the fact of his clandestine meetings. Walesa's wife Danuta, who was later ordered to report for a 2½-hour interrogation session, gave Polish authorities no further information beyond the fact that her husband had been absent from their home for three days and that he was "a grownup person." Even Mieczyslaw Wachowski, Walesa's occasional chauffeur, was called in for questioning by the suspicious police...
They include the correlation between households where a parent is absent frequently, for a variety of reasons, and "many forms of emotional disorder--especially the anger, rebelliousness, low self-esteem, depression and anti-social behavior that characterizes drug users...