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In jokey new commercials for ESPN, BILL BRADLEY tries to convince some skeptical interviewers that he has the qualifications to work for the cable channel. But they simply shake their heads dubiously at his Rhodes Scholarship, Olympic gold medal, two N.B.A. championships, three books and 18 years as a U.S...
Franzen and the others may benefit from Wallace's success. The Twenty-Seventh City, Franzen's deft social-science fiction about a former Bombay police chief who plots to take over St. Louis, Missouri, first published in 1988, was recently released in paperback (Noonday Press; 517 pages; $15).
Franzen displays a striking talent for turning an implausible plot into a convincing omen. Middle-class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department. Soon Jammu and her imported...
"We were let down," senior Louis Sanchez, a co-captain, said. "We didn't even come close to the way we had hoped to finish."
The football players on the Washington team are predominantly African-American. Washington, D.C. is predominantly African-American. Its city council is predominantly African-American. Yet, change the team's name to the Washington Darkies and just sit back and watch the riots flare up. Everyone from Jesse Jackson to Louis...