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WEBB HUBBELL Starr indicts jowly Clinton pal and his wife. Will this be the time when the last dog dies?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Authorities, however, have yet to file charges against Fisher, who at 75 is in poor health. The treasure hunter, who received widespread fame with the discovery of the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in 1985, says he no longer personally dives for the coins. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Treasure | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

This method of telling a story has its sometimes irritating limitations. Irving spends a lot of time describing what his characters do not know; for example, "[Ruth] had no idea that she was not through with him." And the author sometimes overexplains: "Oh, well, Eddie thought as he got off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Saga of Loss And Recovery | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

The story takes place in the near future, when New York residents live underground and travel via personal subway cars because of a fatally potent sun. The protagonist, fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, leaves for a recently discovered planet with her two younger brothers and her father after her mother...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Identity and Ambiguity: Letham's Portrait of the West | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

It is the book's reflection on language, however, that deserves most attention. Throughout the novel, the power of words, as well as the notion of meaning, constantly comes into question. In the beginning, Pella confesses that she relies on her mother for words that serve as an "antidote" to...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Identity and Ambiguity: Letham's Portrait of the West | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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