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...think that the majority of the people on the School Committee felt that history had proven that the city council and the city manager would provide additional money," says Bert Giroux, the public information administrator at the School Department. "The city manager made it clear from the outset that in the past the money had been available...
SCUM by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 218 pages; $19.95). The title sounds right for a new Elmore Leonard detective novel, but Singer has extracted it from a passage in his own short story The Death of Methuselah: "Flesh and corruption were the same from the very beginning, and always will remain the scum of creation, the very opposite of God's wisdom, mercy and splendor...
...FEVER by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 182 pages; $18.95). Although he became known as a writer of science fiction, that term has never adequately defined J.G. Ballard, whose works include Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel (he was born in Shanghai in 1930, to British parents) of childhood in a Japanese-occupied region of China. This new collection of 14 stories reinforces the impression that the author neither should nor can be categorized...
...Wuornos has admitted killing the seven men; one she shot six times, including a coup de grace in the head "to put him out of his misery." The police arrested her Jan. 9, but even before she was charged, Wuornos had signed a movie deal with California producer Jackelyn Giroux. "She's delightful," says Giroux. "Basically, from age three, she had been abused by everyone in her life. If one child can be saved by having another child's story told, it's worth...
...Giroux said no further incidents of discrimination had been reported to the school, adding that he did not know of any increase in anti-Arab sentiment among the students. "People get along pretty well. It'd be chaos if there wasn't an understanding of other people's cultures, "he said...