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...million Amount Amtrak has requested in federal loan guarantees to avert a shutdown...
...people have gathered to see a man whom they believe possesses unsurpassed wisdom and power. In their eyes, Shoei Asai, the 70-year-old leader of a religious sect called Nichiren Kenshokai, is a healer and a prophet who envisions a looming calamity for Japan that he alone can avert. "Asai sensei understands" says Kazuhito Suzuki, a disillusioned, young construction worker who professes nothing but disdain for Japan's establishment and despair for the future. "He has the answers...
Large indeed. According to a recent survey of 2.6 million job applicants by Colorado-based Avert Inc., which specializes in background checks, 44% of all resumes contain at least some lies. Other surveys by Bliss's group reveal that up to 90% of personnel directors report resume fibs about everything from past salaries to--inexplicably--Social Security numbers. And things aren't any better at the boardroom level. Christian & Timbers, one of the nation's top 10 executive-search firms, found that at least 23% of 7,000 resumes submitted for president, V.P. and board-of-director positions had been...
Stephen Carter goes to church regularly. He teaches at an Ivy League law school. He instructs his kids to avert their eyes from inappropriate scenes in music videos--and he actually believes them when they say they do. He would make a perfect Agatha Christie villain: he's the last one you would suspect...
...judge made before his death, of which Talcott knows nothing. A white chess pawn--the judge was a chess fiend--is delivered by an unknown messenger. The priest who delivered Oliver's eulogy turns up dead, his body grotesquely tortured (Carter might want to tell his kids to avert their eyes at this point). As in all good mysteries, the key to the present lies in the past, and to find it, Talcott must delve not only into his father's thwarted nomination but also into the death of his sister, who was killed in a car accident when...