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Using real names for everyone but himself, his family and a few others, Dunne brings on the familiar cast--Clark, Cochran, Bailey, Ito. Yet we also meet another set of characters--the rich and the celebrated with whom he socialized during the trial. On and on, the names pulse through the book: the Princess of Wales, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan, Warren Beatty--each one desperate for Dunne to tell him or her the latest news from the courthouse. Part O.J. reportage and part gossip column, Another City, Not My Own also tells the story of Dunne's personal tragedies...
...like Jack Benny's, Dunne sometimes sits on the sofa's edge as he talks. His pied-a-terre (he mostly lives in Connecticut) is decorated in the conventional style of an East Side gentleman, complete with bird prints on the wall. Asked why he called the hero Gus Bailey, Dunne says, "Gus is me, but I needed to get one step away. I tried using my name, and it inhibited me." The only important fabrications are appearances by Gianni Versace's murderer-to-be, Andrew Cunanan...
...unable to justify to TIME the gap between recommended penalties and those that were ultimately exacted. The officials say nursing homes "have a right" to correct problems before penalties are imposed. But a former government inspector disagrees. "Congress said to impose these penalties, and they're not," says Charles Bailey, a lawyer who left the HCFA this year after spending nearly seven years trying to punish bad nursing homes...
AARON FEUERSTEIN is the George Bailey of the industrialist set. And just as in It's a Wonderful Life, it looks as if it has all worked out swimmingly for the factory owner. When fire gutted Malden Mills in December 1995, Feuerstein decided to rebuild his mill right in Massachusetts, instead of moving it to a cheap labor haven like Mexico or taking the insurance payout and retiring. What's more, he kept all 2,700 staff on the payroll for three months and paid their health insurance for three more. It took nearly two years and an understanding banker...
...front-page article in The Art Newspaper by Martin Bailey documents more than 100 paintings and drawings that some scholars believe someone other than Van Gogh painted...