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...They should contract out these services--have a Starbucks, Taco Bell and other well-known restaurants," he says...
Here's a short, gritty novel whose elegant construction calls to mind the way Greg Louganis used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches...
...neighborhood that wins. Good ending, good novel. The author's most recent book before Ten Indians was All Souls Rising, a panoramic, 530-page historical novel about Haiti's slave rebellion in the 1790s. A lot of readers of the new novel who never read Bell before are going to be digging that one out of libraries and paperback shelves...
...watched TV anytime in the last few weeks, you couldn't have missed this strange new commercial from home-computer manufacturer Packard Bell. But while the ad portrays home banking in a light of fantasy, it's becoming a reality for a growing number of consumers...
Checking your account balance is as easy as a keystroke. You can also check recent bank activity, sorted in dozens of ways. But the selling point of home banking, as the Packard Bell commercials enthuse, is bill payment...