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While on-campus callers can't jump to better long distance rates on their regular direct-dial long distance calls, relief may be in sight for those who are willing to forsake hearing a pin drop in order to keep their dime...
Love triangles are a dime a dozen in novels, but hate triangles are altogether rarer. In John Burnham Schwartz's swift, smooth second novel, Reservation Road (Knopf; 292 pages; $24), the three-sided relationship between Ethan Learner, a pacifist English professor; his wife Grace, a trusting garden designer; and Dwight Arno, a temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors...
...SHOULD CLINTON EMULATE?] Not a good career move. Blind saxophone players are a dime a dozen...
...that find the tenderness in men. His new book is more of a morality tale dressed as a murder mystery. Mr. White is a painfully shy salesclerk who photographs showgirls in his room; his alter ego, Wesley Horner, is an anguished cop with unsolved mysteries of his own. As dime-a-dance girls start showing up dead in St. Paul, Minn., in 1939, the men's paths intersect, and a story of guilt and innocence turns into a pulsing tale of redemption and original goodness, pitting God against the devil. If Mr. White's Confession occasionally feels like...
Sluggers like McGwire--batters who swing for the fences four times a day and damn the torpedoes--are, pardon the iconoclasm, a dime a dozen. Second-rate ballplayers like Dave Kingman, George Foster and Cecil Fielder have put up roughly comparable numbers with exponentially less hoopla...