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Some Alaskans are taking even more extreme measures to defend their homes. "My family has a large arsenal," says Michael C. Merriner '96, adding, "I'll use my semi-automatic.22 to injure more soldiers." Merriner's greatest fear is "they'll regulate the hunting and fishing. The U.S. regulates it enough. If Russia takes over we wouldn't be able to hunt or fish...
...would be very poor, that I should expect little. He was mistaken. I, the daughter of a long-lost brother who had found success in America, was treated and fed like an empress. My uncle had made a special trip to the wharf, to buy my father's favorite fish for my welcome dinner. At dinner my cousins kept me supplied with the biggest piece of fish, the biggest shrimp, the biggest crab. Later, when he learned I had liked the Hami melons in Xinjiang, Li Gan made a special trip to the fruit stand. When we bicycled around...
EDWIN MEESE, Attorney General under Reagan. What he did: In San Diego for a meeting, he spent the evening at a fish restaurant near the harbor...
Piecing all those together is quite a chore for a novel that also wants to be a religious allegory, a comedy of bad manners and a portrait of the interior life at a time when TV ads clog the stream of consciousness like shimmering dead fish. Long stretches where the laughs come hard are followed by sudden bloomings of comic rhapsody. This wayward frolic is a bit like Oscar's car. Sometimes you could swear it was stone dead -- until it starts up and runs right over...
...communities in her first 18 years, during which her father Al, who has variously driven a truck, managed apartments and worked at a bait-and-tackle store, was her best friend. He gave her her first gun, a .22, when she was five, taught her to hunt and fish and fix a transmission. Her parents' marriage fell apart in 1985, and two years later her mother married James Golden, her sixth husband (who told TIME last week that yet another divorce is in the works). Soon afterward, Harding moved in with Gillooly, whom she had been dating for three years...