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...injured in a car bombing in Madrid today. The Basque separatist group ETA is believed responsible for the attack. The attack comes four months after ETA killed another leading PP figure, Gregorio Ordonez. Many of the PP's members oppose greater autonomy for the Basque provinces. TIME Spain reporter Jane Walker says that because the provinces are essentially autonomous already, with their own schools and taxation systems, ETA has steadily lost support. Thus "Every now and then they have to attack someone to keep their name in the papers, but most Basques now prefer to settle this at the ballot...
...Jane Applegath Scottsdale, Arizona...
...there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? In between writing penetrating tales of domestic heartbreak (in novellas such as The Age of Grief), she tossed off a 582-page novel that drew upon her knowledge of Old Icelandic (The Greenlanders). Now, having won the Pulitzer Prize and a permanent place in America's gallery of tragedians with A Thousand Acres, a punishingly dark look at sexual abuse that brought King Lear into the American heartland, she comes up with a 414-page campus satire that culminates in the encounter of a 700-lb. runaway hog and a former Pork Queen...
...Reported by Cathy Booth/Miami and Tom Curry and Jane Van Tassel/New York
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley's campus satire (Knopf; 414 pages; $24) is centered on Moo U, a huge Midwestern agricultural college where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," an inventor moos after suffering a "brain attack" and secretaries sell Amway products by telephone. "As jaunty and straightforward as its title, 'Moo' allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym," saysTIME critic Pico Iyer. "It is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work...