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...like an episode of Miami Vice scripted by John le Carre. It began in December 1980 in Miami, where Robert Darias, then 46, faced a winter of discontent. A Cuban exile, he had spent 20 months in Fidel Castro's prison camps after being captured during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. He had also served time in an American pokey for tax fraud, and still owed the Internal Revenue Service $200,000. Darias, though, did have a couple of highly marketable assets. His gentlemanly, businesslike demeanor inspired trust, and he knew some things about drug dealing in South...
Street musicians and Cambridge residents within the last month have forced opposition to the upcoming installation of television monitors at some Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway stops...
...sued the White House to open the meetings, arguing that Hillary's presence as a nongovernment employee entitled them to attend as well. A federal judge ruled that some of the meetings had to be open. The Administration appealed, contending that it was only trying to keep lobbyists at bay...
...obsessively for Mona, a woman he met years ago at a strip joint called the Fleurs d'X. She may be Sally or a daughter, or not. The city is Aeonopolis, and it could be San Francisco, much decayed, if San Francisco had a huge, smoking volcano where the Bay Bridge is. White-robed priests police thought and behavior and try to capture a graffiti artist who scrawls THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS on the same wall every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then to an old recluse...
...White House and the military, Clinton's problems are not unique. "Almost every President has had trouble with the military and the Chiefs," says presidential historian Michael Beschloss. John Kennedy's war-hero status could not protect him from criticism when he refused to provide air cover for the Bay of Pigs landing. Lyndon Johnson's Joint Chiefs threatened a mass resignation over his policy of graduated escalation in Vietnam. And Dwight Eisenhower's five stars provided no cover when he tried to cut the Air Force budget. "When budgets go up, Presidents get along famously," says Beschloss. "When budgets...