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Akhil Sharma's An Obedient Father, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is an Indian family novel that should appeal to anyone with a taste for red-blooded American realism and farce. His narrator, Ram Karan, a corrupt inspector for the New Delhi school system, is a self-pitying moral sloth whom Mark Twain would have recognized in a Missouri minute...
...than fiction. In what bears a striking resemblance to a setup for a bad joke, the New York Times reported Thursday that Maj. Gen. Larry Smith, the officer accused of harassing the Army's highest-ranking woman, Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, was poised last summer to be appointed deputy inspector general for the Army - in which capacity he would have investigated, among other personnel matters, charges of sexual harassment. Smith never got the job, because when news of his pending promotion reached Kennedy, she filed a formal complaint alleging that Smith groped her in her office back...
...door is difficult to regulate. Some people simply put in their own toilet; others have been known to have their low-flow toilet adjusted to higher flush standards. Still others have been known to buy a low-flow for inspection and replace it with an Old Faithful after the inspector leaves...
Normally, when the inspector general of a government department conducts an investigation, the Justice Department waits for a formal criminal referral before getting involved. Not so with the State Department's deepening criminal probe into questionable dealings by Al Gore's campaign chairman, Tony Coelho, a Justice source tells TIME. Why the unusual coordination between the two? "To be honest," says a high-ranking Justice official, "because it looks like there might be something there." So Justice wants the initial investigation handled carefully...
...Postulate 3: Amidst all this beverage befuddlement, this southern belle promptly lost, and found, and lost again, the worlds most priceless object, The Jewel of Denial, picked up an inspector-gadget type at the bar (color: plaid), discovered her family heritage, failed to fire her criminal maid, financed an expedition to Egypt worthy of the Natural History Museums Alumni Tours, forgot to stop at the Nile, befriended a beheaded Pharoahs wife, and used, we presume, approximately 36 cans of hairspray to hold her coiffure firmly three feet above her head...