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Still, most readers of airport paperbacks, the kind of good, sturdy trash that will see you through four hours at O'Hare, would say of Westlake, "Sure, clever fellow, writes detective stories." He doesn't, however. In the long list of his 60-some novels, the author recalls no detectives, no "police procedurals," as cop stories are called in the trade, no lawyer novels. Why? Mildly, but definitely, Westlake gives a surprising answer: "Authority is doing fine. They don't need my help." Spy novels, then? "No, they were never right for me. Those guys are working...
...wretched list of people failed the Princess of Wales on that terrible night in August: reckless paparazzi [WORLD, Oct. 13], a driver impaired by drugs and alcohol, an ineffectual bodyguard. But most shameful was the slow trip to the hospital when every second counted in getting Diana to a trauma center; she was deprived of a last chance for survival. PATRICIA JOERGER Rochester...
...took responsibility for letting the drug money into Samper's campaign. "We desperately look forward," McCaffrey told reporters, "to working with a man or woman who is talented and a person of high integrity." Privately, McCaffrey has made it clear that Serpa is not on that list...
...make it here, sang one particular Chairman of the Board, you can make it anywhere. Now what was true in the musicals is true in real life, and all the CEOs are singing it. Fortune magazine has shot the Big Apple straight in to the top of its list of North American cities to do business...
...that gets West Coasters down, they can always emigrate ? to Dublin, perhaps, which tops the European list; or Santiago, Fortune's Latin American Mecca. But with Rudy Giuliani almost certain to win reelection Tuesday, it looks as if nothing can stain the Big City's smile. Start spreading the news...