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...novel within a novel--that gives The Blind Assassin (Doubleday; 521 pages; $26) its title. The less theoretically inclined can simply kick back and marvel at Atwood's gripping tale, which stretches from World War I almost to the present moment. At the center are two sisters, Iris and Laura Chase, daughters of a wealthy Canadian manufacturer who is ruined during the Depression. The Chase girls must adjust to diminished expectations, and the choices they make, the secrets they keep, will reverberate for decades. There is enough suspense in The Blind Assassin, out Sept. 5, to stock a shelfful...
...with a quote from Chronicles and gave repeated thanks to God, "maker of all miracles"--a technique more familiar to a Christian Coalition Republican than the average Jewish Democrat. Jews may be well represented in the upper ranks of government, but not Orthodox Jews: With the exception of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Lieberman stands alone as the most prominent Orthodox Jew in America, and he is certainly the most widely respected...
...those Americans, and those Jews, who consider Orthodoxy synonymous with narrow-mindedness and intolerance (paging Dr. Laura), Lieberman has a chance to set the record straight. If he manages to bridge the gulf between the ethnic and religious camps, Lieberman will ultimately be good for the Jews in more ways than one: Not only will he teach America what it is to be Jewish, he may teach Jews something about themselves...
...story is all about faith and redemption; it's the year he turned 40 and quit drinking and found his faith reawakened after a walk on the beach with Billy Graham. The process of finally growing up and calming down, of course, had really begun when he married Laura, "the best thing he's ever done," says his cousin Elsie Walker. It was Laura who had issued W. the ultimatum about booze. "It's me or the bottle," she reportedly told her husband. The birth of his twin daughters also did a lot to steady him. The collapse...
...LAURA (WELCH) BUSH Born: 1946 Aspiring first lady...