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...presidential assassinations and attempts, beginning with assassination “pioneer” John Wilkes Booth and ending with Lee Harvey Oswald’s shot from the book depository. Time and space are fluid. Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau gives a shooting lesson to would-be Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, and Booth suggests to Guiseppe Zangara that he might relieve his stomach pains by shooting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. Allowing the assassins throughout history to meet each other highlights the common themes that drove them to do the unthinkable...
...rest of the novel is Ben’s account of his existence before adulthood as shaped by his mother and the cult of women she has taken into their Ohio home. The cult, called the Silentists, is led by a woman named Jane Dark, who directs them in their efforts to eliminate all motion, all speech and all feeling. This entails a number of rather complex processes and experiments involving cloth that holds words, water that absorbs experience and oral communication (what little there is of it) with an emphasis on vowels over consonants. Marcus describes elaborate devices designed...
...style as well. The text is scattered with brief historical accounts of important events in the history of the Silentists, which also provides descriptions of experiments concerning the essence of women’s names. (These are remnants of the book’s initial conceptualization: Marcus stumbled across Jane Dark while writing fake historical accounts satirizing the patriarchal and condescending ones he found in an old reference book, also entitled Notable American Women...
...decades at GE, JACK WELCH was widely considered one of the country's savviest businessmen. His prenuptial agreement, however, is unlikely to impress even a first-year M.B.A. student. The prenup expired after 10 years; his marriage to wife JANE WELCH lasted 13. Jane, 49, filed for divorce last week after Jack, 66, was caught in a rather public exchange of assets with SUZY WETLAUFER, above, former editor of the Harvard Business Review--an affair that began after Wetlaufer, 42, interviewed Jack for an article. Now Jane is free to pursue half the earnings her husband amassed during their marriage...
When the highest profile working mother in the country - Acting Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts - flames out, how are low profile working mothers supposed to react? After I said that Swift's ineptitude transcended gender on CNN on Wednesday, I got 20 phone calls from annoyed viewers who hate it when women don't stick together. "Too bad," said one caller, "you don't have "working fathers to beat...