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...about terror. New Yorkers heeded Rudy Giuliani's advice, but 300 miles south, in Virginia--the state in which the Pentagon was attacked--nobody much cared when America's mayor appeared in a television commercial and declared, "If I were a Virginian, I would vote for Mark Earley." Giuliani's benediction couldn't help the hapless Republican gubernatorial candidate. Earley's opponent, Democratic businessman Mark Warner, made sure to pose with flags and fire fighters, but the race was about taxes, teachers' salaries, traffic congestion--pre-9/11 stuff. Warner won with 52% of the vote...
...Virginia race, which pitted Warner against Republican Mark Earley, was the most expensive gubernatorial campaign in the state's history. Warner, a moderate businessman, raised more than $18 million for his campaign, while Earley, a longtime politico, put roughly $10 million into his attempt at the statehouse. Virginia, generally considered a solidly Republican state, has not elected a Democrat since Douglas Wilder won the vote in 1989. Observers say Warner won this year by staking out centrist positions on popular issues like gun ownership. Earley was also hurt by party infighting over budget and tax issues...
...latest polls give Democrat Mark Warner a very slight edge over Republican Mark Earley. In this race the Republicans hold the experience card; Earley is a former state attorney general, who warns that a Democratic governor will bring a tax hike. An old-fashioned Republican in an old-fashioned Republican state, Earley often shows up for campaign appearances wearing a business suit and cowboy boots...
...Tony Earley's first novel, Jim the Boy (Little, Brown; 227 pages; $23.95), blithely and successfully counters this trend. It covers a year in the life of Jim Glass Jr., from his 10th to 11th birthdays, in the tiny hamlet of Aliceville, N.C., during the mid-1930s. His father died of a heart attack a week before Jim was born, and he has been raised by his mother and her three bachelor brothers, Zeno and the twins Coran and Al. When the book opens, Jim has never traveled more than 30 miles from Aliceville. What he doesn't know about...
...Earley, whose 1997 collection of stories Here We Are in Paradise earned considerable praise and attention, presents Jim's story as a series of quietly, precisely rendered vignettes. In the first one, the birthday boy is allowed to help the grownups hoe the cornfield in preparation for spring planting. Thrilled at this recognition of his new maturity, Jim listens to Uncle Zeno explain how to use the hoe and then sets to work. After a while, though, the task becomes less thrilling. He puts down his hoe and starts throwing rocks: "When Jim picked up his hoe, he noticed that...