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...PEACE LIKE A RIVER This engaging first novel, set in the early 1960s, follows the Land family--father Jeremiah; son Reuben, 11; and daughter Swede, 9--as they try to track down eldest son, Davy, 17, who has been convicted of murder but escaped from jail. Their trek occasions some literally miraculous events, and author Leif Enger makes the preposterous plausible and good...
...first we are appalled that our government allowed terrorists to enter the country and wage war against us. Now opponents of the Administration are indignant that the Justice Department has actually gone so far as to arrest and jail foreign visitors to our country whose visas have expired or who have broken other laws. Am I the only person who does not understand this? JOHN J. THORNTON Tampa...
...Hammered Staining the starched white collar of Sotheby's, the venerable auction house, chairman A. Alfred Taubman was convicted last month of conspiring to fix prices and thereby ripping off the world's most élite clientele. The 76-year-old shopping center magnate now faces three years in jail, millions of dollars in fines and the eternal question: Does one ever have enough money? Taubman remains the controlling shareholder of Sotheby's, which is now for sale. This time he might have to let the market set the price...
...matter what Arafat may do, Hamas remains a danger to everyone engaged in the Middle East. Sheik Yassin can be shut up in his house for a while; hundreds of rank and file can be made to serve jail time. Even the zeal that drives Hamas to kill civilians may be tamped down for a time. But never, it seems, for good. Already, sources in the Hamas military wing tell TIME, somewhere in a Hamas safe house, militants inflamed by the American war in Afghanistan are debating whether it is time to add U.S. targets in Israel and the territories...
...Most Wanted fugitives, for allegedly mailing more than 550 hoax anthrax letters signed "Army of God" to about 280 abortion clinics; in Cincinnati, Ohio. Waagner, found with $8,986 in cash and a .40-caliber loaded semiautomatic pistol, had escaped from an Illinois jail in February. CONVICTED. A. ALFRED TAUBMAN, 76, the former chairman of Sotheby's, of conspiring with rival auction house Christie's to fix commissions paid by fine art sellers; in New York. His net worth at the time of the scam was $700 million and he allegedly stole as much as $400 million in charges from...