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...death in 1982. Two books about him have since appeared: a memoir by his daughter Susan, Home Before Dark (1984), and Scott Donaldson's John Cheever: A Biography, published earlier this year. More collections are on the way. After legal wranglings, a compromise between the Cheever estate and a Midwestern publisher has been reached: a selection of the author's uncollected stories will appear next spring. And Cheever's private journals will surely be made public soon. All of this activity prompts a question. If Cheever's early obscurity was unjustified, might not these posthumous publications be a compensatory case...
...traffic congestion. In New Jersey, where drivers pay the highest average rates in the U.S., a group of consumers pounded a car with a sledgehammer last February to demonstrate their rage. Each state regulates insurance separately, a practice that contributes to wide price differences from place to place. Several Midwestern states have been able to control insurance costs to some degree by passing strong no-fault laws, under which drivers file claims with their own insurers instead of bringing expensive suits against one another...
...shocking. Indeed, most members of our generation that did vote pulled the lever for Bush. It has become almost routine for Republicans, and conservative ones at that, to crush Democrats in national elections. They have beaten a Southern neo-liberal in Jimmy Carter, they have defeated a traditional Midwestern liberal in Walter Mondale, and they have now crushed a Northeastern technocrat...
Miami is about as Midwestern as Paris. Now, because the NBA didn't realize that yes, Miami is in the South, the Heat will have to travel more frequently to convenient locations such as Denver and Utah...
...Poland and Joseph Brodsky of the Soviet Union, both Nobel laureates. But their situation is never far from her thoughts. Her first novel in nearly a quarter-century, which she has almost completed and calls The Western Half, is about Polish and Soviet emigres in Paris, New York and Midwestern academe...