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MANY NEWSPAPER REPORTERS are convinced that they have a novel in them if only their damned editors and creditors would give them the time to write it. Pete Dexter, 51, is one of the happy few journalists who have lived up to this belief. While working as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, he moonlighted God's Pocket (1984), a gritty story set in that city's seamier neighborhoods, which earned an unusual amount of attention for a first novel. Three others followed, including Paris Trout (1989), which won the National Book Award...
...Dexter no longer has to write on deadline for pay, although he keeps his hand in at his old trade by turning out a weekly syndicated column for the Sacramento Bee. And as his fifth novel, The Paperboy (Random House; 307 pages; $23), demonstrates, he remains intriguedand a little appalledby journalistic ethics and the lack thereof...
...Dexter's accountthrough Jack's eyesof this newspaper story in the making is hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics. The reporters' encounters with members of the Van Wetter clan comicallyand ominouslyjuxtapose modern types with people ancient in their cunning and evil. The novel's conclusion feels a bit hasty; but for much of its length, The Paperboy burns with the phosphorescent atmosphere of betrayal...
Inevitably, the much publicized showdown prompted the larger question of whether Coretta Scott King, 67, and her son Dexter, 33 -- the third of her four children, who heads the King Center -- still have the political standing and moral authority to represent Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision. In a news conference about the Park Service dispute, Coretta King declared that "the same evil forces that destroyed Martin Luther King are now trying to destroy my family...
Students were reported to be in shock at the news. North House tutor Dexter Callender told The Crimson that he spoke to several students who were still noticeably distraught over the name change. Rumors earlier in the week prompted the formation of a "Save North" movement, but in the end, the traditionalists conceded: "We're upset but resolved. We know we can't fight the University...