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...WILD OATES: PW is intoxicated with "Middle Age: A Romance" by Joyce Carol Oates, giving it a starred review. "FORECAST: Of late, Oates can do no wrong. Deep in her career, she is pulling out the stops again. Since the success of ?Blonde,? and Oprah?s February 2001 selection of ?We Were the Mulvaneys,? more readers than ever will be gravitating to her new work (and her backlist, too) and they should be thoroughly satisfied with her latest offering...
...larger-than-life rambler who inspired backwoods legend among contemporaries, undying devotion from his wife, Ava, and unabashed love and awe from his large extended family....Bragg delivers, with deep affection, fierce familial pride, and keen, vivid prose that's as sharp and bone-bright as a butcher knife...FORECAST: Knopf is pulling all the stops for this. 200,000-copy first printing, 19-city author tour...
...Special tax laws categorize REITs as nonequity assets, but growth in the '90s--from a $9 billion market cap to $139 billion--may have changed that. S&P will soon decide the trusts' status. Separately, three investment firms last week tweaked their REIT accounting, saying they'd forecast results per share, as with equities...
...like Boise Cascade, which hopes to derail the monument. "We'd just like to narrow the area to the significant features that warrant monument designation," says Hill. Contrasting sharply with both the big-money forestry firms and the well-organized Greens, a ragtag crew of ranchers show up to forecast in plain terms how the monument will destroy their way of life. "This is devastating," says cattleman Mike Dauenhauer, who owns a 12,000-acre spread but wants his cows to continue their subsidized grazing on public lands. Also balking, albeit to a lesser extent, are motorcycle riders...
...best of all, the mood of the consumer is apparently picking up. Way up. The Conference Board reported that its monthly index of consumer confidence rose to 117.9 in June from May's revised reading of 116.1. Wall Street economists polled by Briefing.com had forecast a reading of only...