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...Thomas Berger's Being Invisible cannot seem to invent an identity for himself on paper or in person; when he uses his invisibility, clumsily, to filch $2,200 from the cash drawer of a bank, he is so conscience-stricken that he returns the money before closing time. Fred Wagner, a copywriter for a mail-order catalog and a would-be novelist, is the sort of wimp whose wife of four years would leave him out of "contempt for his habitual failure to claim justice from the petty tyrants of quotidian life." One day he discovers that he can simply...
...conspicuous, merely corroborates the fact that "he was already, and had been long since, invisible in the moral sense." When he decides to reveal his power to others, he has just as much trouble getting them to believe in his unseen self as in his presence. "I'm sorry, Fred," says his bored doctor after Wagner has disappeared and reappeared before the man's eyes, "we just don't have time for any more shenanigans." Berger's sly theme: invisibility is almost beside the point. Character, not circumstance, is Wagner's dilemma, and a very funny and touching...
...ride out, threats like major hurricanes. So when Katrina's 25-foot storm surge slammed into Point Cadet's rising flood waters on the morning of August 29, it swept James' body to the north-"twisted and folded up like some raggedy doll," says a friend, Fred Smith-and two days his drowned corpse was found 100 yards away, lodged with debris in a wire fence. This casual attitude toward danger carries a high price, both in lives and money, and it's one that many in the Gulf Coast are beginning to question. People are asking whether taxpayers should...
...FRED SPILHAUS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR...
...deliberate word choice that liberals would read as suggesting he wouldn't overturn previous court decisions on issues like abortion and that conservatives would read as reassurance that he wouldn't be setting social policies from the bench. He also followed the advice of his designated handler, former Senator Fred Thompson, who plays a legal sage on Law & Order but is turning out to be a political one in real life. "They like to talk," Thompson told Roberts as they met with Senators, "so let them...