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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from being an isolated outrage, such a botch-up is shockingly common, claims Baden, co-director of the forensic sciences unit of the New York state police. In a new book, Unnatural Death (Random House; $17.95), he and co- author Judith Adler Hennessee present a fascinating and disturbing picture of a shamefully inadequate U.S. coroner system. About 7% of the 2 million Americans who die annually meet an untimely end, by murder, suicide or accident. By law, such deaths must be investigated. Though the public may believe that every coroner is a skilled sleuth like television's Quincy, fewer than...
Hijuelos, 37, author of 1985's Our House in the Last World, catches the rhythms and flavors of the streets, nightclubs and Latin family life. Castillo is all melody, by turns upbeat and melancholy. By age 60, his best performances on bandstand and bedstead behind him, he occupies a room in an East Harlem flop mockingly called the Hotel Splendour. There, his music out of style, his body failing, he thrives on memories of songs sung and women loved. Yet, as Hijuelos conveys with art and sympathy, the Mambo King is to be admired and envied...
When he was old and rich, Shaw wrote poorly, at least according to critical consensus. The only horizon his mighty best seller Rich Man, Poor Man expanded was that of the television mini-series. And the rest of his late work inspired little beyond envy of the author's expensive expatriate life, which the work subsidized...
...Mexican author Jorge G. Castaneda speaks of his country's political instability, its staggering debt and the U.S.'s stake in the outcome...
White resentment over affirmative action has become a powerful undercurrent in race relations. "Whites think most discrimination is ancient history," says sociologist Bob Blauner, the author of a recently published oral history, Black Lives, White Lives. "They see things like affirmative action, and some people even think blacks have an advantage...