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When you are a writer with that many axes to grind, it's only a matter of time before you produce a novel about serial killers. Not that the offhand killings in Lullaby (Doubleday; 260 pages) involve anything so blunt as a hatchet. The murder weapons here are words. At fortysomething, Carl Streator has been a widower for 20 years. He is a recognizable Palahniuk character, the kind who deals with grief by building small scale models of churches, factories and houses, then stomping them to splinters until his feet bleed. Carl is a newspaper reporter working on a series...
This is a particularly blunt exposition of the problem. Still, Krauthammer’s basic model of American political culture is both correct and starkly noticeable here in Cambridge. Campus leftists tend to feel the moral high ground is automatically theirs; conservatives tend to believe they are the true intellects and that, while the liberals they oppose have soft hearts, they have softer heads...
...long while. White House officials say Bush will not initially ask for a new resolution from the Security Council. Instead, by listing the ways in which Saddam has flouted its will, Bush is expected to challenge the U.N. to defend its credibility. "He's going to be very blunt," says an aide. "He's going to say 'Your credibility is at stake. You have to decide whether you're relevant.'" One possible option: Bush may set a deadline for Iraq to comply with existing U.N. resolutions...
...Tanaka's outrageous personal style?his stuffed animal collection, his bright ties, his see-through "crystal office"?grabs headlines, yet he is only one of a group of influential governors challenging the center. Best known is Shintaro Ishihara, governor of Tokyo, notorious for his blunt speech and strident nationalism. Just last week, Ishihara sparked a furor about Japan's hapless banking system by threatening to pull the city's deposits from troubled Mizuho Holdings...
...Milbrett still thinks there's more to do, and she is famously incapable of anything but blunt honesty. WUSA has lived off the soccer-mom set, but Milbrett says the league has to market to a broader fan base: "League-wide we need to figure it out better. It's not just about little girls and their families. We need to have marketing for the general public. I know that's very expensive, but it has to be done...