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...EASTON, Mass.--In last night's episode of the "Blue Blood Battles," Massachusetts' unprecedented series of eight Senatorial debates, Gov. William F. Weld '66 and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) did little to move their campaigns out of a dead heat...
...John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Gov. William F. Weld '66 were grilled by ordinary citizens last night on issues including drugs and taxes in a debate at Stonehill College in Easton...
...candidates will square off in a sixth debate Oct. 15 at Stonehill College in Easton and Oct. 28 at Faneuil Hall in Boston...
...extent that that ignorance is a failure on our part, then we deserve some of this heat." St. Martin's is not the first U.S. publisher to yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work of nonfiction rather than a question of artistic license...
...trite grotesqueness, though, Alice cannot be tossed off as another American Psycho, the famously godawful Bret Easton Ellis novel to which it has been likened. Ellis' treatment of sadism has a dopey campiness that Homes is incapable of. She takes her crazed protagonist very seriously, describing his every abhorrent desire in mind-boggling detail that amounts to a twisted, writerly artfulness all its own. And as in her last book, In a Country of Mothers, the story of a psychoanalyst's debilitating obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice...