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...tables covered with yesterday's newspaper, when he celebrates the low country's amphibious charms or confronts his mixed feelings about bubba culture, there are flashes of a gifted novelist. That would be the Pat Conroy who wrote The Water Is Wide and The Great Santini, not the maker of what is certain to be this summer's best-selling snack...
...togain back lost ground in the high-tech world, IBM announced a $3.3 billion hostile takeover bid for Lotus Development Corp., maker of the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and other software. "Together, our skills match in a way that is breathtaking," IBM's chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner told a news conference. (Lotus, the third-largest PC software company after Microsoft and Novell, rejected IBM's buyout suggestions during five months of private talks, but today said it would consider the $60 per share cash offer, which amounts to twice its market value.)TIME senior technology editor Philip...
...Desert Inn a year ago, after a relative gambled away his rent and utility money, leaving his credit record in ruins. A cook at Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want to be left alone," says Doherty, whose back was injured in a tank accident...
...have set to work. In addition to more than 300 attorneys who have signed up to provide pro bono legal services to victims and their families, O.J. Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. and Oklahoma City attorney John Merritt have filed a suit on behalf of several survivors against the maker of the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb. (The company, ICI Explosives USA Inc., has responded that there is no evidence it was their fertilizer.) And last week University of Texas law professor Michael Tigar, well known in legal circles for his defense of such high-profile...
Novelists reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...