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Barbie, 73, has already been twice convicted in absentia, in 1952 and 1954, of an extensive list of war crimes in Vichy France, including the murder of 4,342 people and the deportation to concentration camps of 7,591 Jews, most of whom perished. His name is guaranteed to live in French infamy for one deed alone, the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance hero and Charles de Gaulle's representative to the underground. But because the statute of limitations has run out on many of his crimes, the career Nazi official will not stand trial for most...
...young editor who narrates the novel, an account of the workings of Belles Lettres from its beginnings as the plaything of the rich and cultivated Winifred Buckram to its present as a property of Protean Publications, whose owner, Cyrus Tooling, is less cultivated. His response to the journal's list of 25 important American writers: "Who the f is Harold Brodkey? And where the f is Herman Wouk...
...Testament written by Mel Brooks, the 'Book of the Dead' by Henry Miller, the Iliad by Woody Allen, the head of Nefertiti by Red Grooms"), an intraoffice scandal about an aging office boy who enriches himself by selling review copies as well as slots on the best-seller list, and a Shakespeare hoax that brings down the magazine's lowbrow chief, Newbold Press. Simmons demonstrates his versatility by composing nine "lost" sonnets by the Bard...
...bill states that the only contracts to be accepted from companies on the "apartheid list" are those that the state's Secretary of Administration and Finance determines to be an essential purchase, or when the company is the only bidder for the contract, or if the bid is necessary to ensure a competitive bidding process...
Under Graham's proposal, Coca-Cola would not be exempt from the "apartheid list," Slate said...