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...four hours south of Atlanta, is remembered as the place that turned back Martin Luther King Jr., sending the crusader home empty-handed. Albany sits in the heart of peanut country amid a dusty interweave of farm towns and red clay countryside. It's a world of tradition and habit; both dictate that this district belong to the Democrats. All the same, Albany is headquarters of Dylan Glenn's run for Congress, and if the 28-year-old wins, his election as the district's first Republican will be least among the reasons to cross-tab him in the history...
...when the reality is so vivid and convoluted? Robert Stone provides an engrossing answer in his sixth novel, Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin; 500 pages; $26). All of Stone's previous fiction has featured heroes whose problems are implicitly religious. Their pathologies--the heavy ingestion of drugs and booze, the habit of seeking or stumbling into serious, life-threatening trouble--stem from their uneasy sense that God still exists, but not for them. Damascus Gate makes this problem perfectly clear...
...industry's. Had he suddenly bought into one of its most ludicrous arguments, that the price hike places an unfair burden on the poor, who smoke the most and, ironically, save the country money by dying early? Industry advocates contend that a smoker with a pack-a-day habit pays so much in cigarette tax and collects so much less in Social Security benefits that society ends up ahead. But isn't premature death as fiscal policy a little hard to square with right-to-life and family values...
People who had quit start again and others,like Kassam, just bitterly lament, "I'm addicted!"as reason for continuing. One junior's explanationfor continuing his habit was little more secureabout myself. I think it has something to do witha manual-oral fixation and how I like my hands tostay busy. I can just be walking along, and whenI'm smoking, I sometimes feel I don't have a carein the world. I think 'It's just me and mycigarette and everything's okay.' Smoking makes meslow down and appreciate every walk more...
...effects like gross breath and yellow teeth.This means they must constantly deal with friends'objections. One of the "pack-a-day" smokers of theSmelly Rock Smoking Club knows this annoyance onlytoo well. "My non-smoking boyfriend no longer asksme to quit because he'd rather put up with mynasty habit than my mood swings from trying toquit," she says. Burns, on the other hand, is arealist. "I don't mind friends' criticism toomuch," she says, "because I know they have apoint...