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...name is the butt of a joke, the source of a laugh and the title of a scandal.' JACK ABRAMOFF, former Republican lobbyist, before being sentenced to four years in prison for corruption and tax evasion...
Soon another bird returns to the nest: Robert's prodigal son Jack. (What else would he be named?) Jack is a notoriously unemployable drunkard who in his youth stole prolifically, then fathered a child out of wedlock, then fled Gilead. He hasn't been back in 20 years. "I failed as a lowlife," he cracks. "But not for want of--application." A tender, troubled soul, Jack feels desperately guilty about his misdeeds, but at the same time he finds his family's Christian forgiveness unbearable. Glory and Robert are furious with Jack, but at the same time they ache with...
...only feeling Home inspires. Awe is another one. As writers go, Robinson is among the superpowered. She moves easily in and out of minds that to a lesser writer would be solid and opaque, evoking their smallest, most intricate emotions with master-level eloquence. But at heart, Home is Jack's book, or it should be, and therein lies the problem. He's charming enough--God knows what the Boughton family did for the 20 years he was gone, since he's the only one in the house who can make a proper joke. He just isn't quite real...
Palin’s career in Juneau mirrors McCain’s tenure in Washington. McCain pilloried former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s military strategy in Iraq , scrutinized lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s dealings with Indian tribes , and railed against the pork barrel projects approved by a Republican Congress . While Palin scraped the pork barrel for federal dollars herself, she also line-item-vetoed $268 million worth of hometown projects from the state budget, or about 10 percent of state spending. These political victories have enabled the McCain campaign to sell her as a bull moose...
...this gallery is Mickey Rourke, who made a strong impression in Body Heat and assumes command of Diner whenever he is onscreen. With a face as handsome as it is streetwise, and a smile that manages to be both shy and cunning, Rourke has the potential of a young Jack Nicholson...