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...advance press for the new book by Russell Banks (HarperCollins; 390 pages; $22) tries hard to pass the novel off as the story of a Huck Finn-esque mall rat in upstate New York. Unfortunately, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi, a ready-made metaphor. It's a much more difficult, and much less interesting, trick for Bone, the 14 year old narrator of this book, who's stuck not with a river but a mere shopping mall, a place whereTIME book critic John Skowsays "you can sort...
...Finn said members of GLIB showed "exemplarybehavior" when they marched in the parade in 1992and...
...Finn said she has received dozens of lettersand phone calls of support from Irish-Americanleaders across the country. In addition, she said,the Irish government has barred anyrepresentatives from its office from participatingin the South Boston parade...
...Finn said GLIB will march in newly-initiatedSt. Patrick's Day parade in Cambridge if Bostonparade officials again deny gay and lesbian groupsthe chance to take part in their parade...
...Finn said she would continue to pressure SBAWVCmembers for permission to march in the SouthBoston parade. "Civil rights are something youneed to stand up for, even if you step on sometoes in the process," she said...