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SENTENCED. GARY PAUL KARR, 52; to life in prison for extortion from atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, missing since 1995 along with her son and granddaughter; in Austin, Texas. Trial testimony pointed to the trio's kidnapping, murder and dismemberment, but remains have never been found...
CONVICTED. GARY KARR, 52, of conspiring to rob famed atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair of $500,000 in gold coins; in Austin, Texas. Karr was acquitted of charges of kidnapping the activist and two family members, who disappeared...
...early riser, so the first two or three hours of my vacation mornings were spent getting the news from the likes of Maxwell, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Frank Conroy, Alice Adams, Stewart O'Nan, Charles Baxter--short stories and novels--and from Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, a memoir so rich it might be a novel...
...have no desire to become Big Brother," counters Rob Karr of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association. He points out that the law forbids taped conversations from being passed on to third parties and requires employers to gain permission before they eavesdrop. But the Illinois law is unclear whether that means telling employees each time they plan to listen or issuing just a one-time blanket warning. As for bosses who stumble into private conversations, Karr says if a worker is doing personal business on company time, bosses "probably have the right to be listening...
Nevertheless, readers seem to be responding. Mary Karr, whose chronicle of family chaos in East Texas, The Liars' Club (Viking; 320 pages; $22.95), was a surprise best seller earlier this year, discovered an "incredible kinship" with audiences on a tour of public readings from her book. "They were people from every walk of American life--bankers, professors, laborers, blacks, whites, literates and illiterates. Afterward they came up to the stage to tell me about childhoods far worse than mine, or some terrible family secret and how they were able to go on living and loving despite it. I learned that...