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...three months ago. He has seen two of his portable computer terminals, for filing stories back to New York, go up in smoke. But Barrett remains stoic. Says he: "Come Nov. 4,1 have a fifty-fifty chance of knowing the President-elect better than most people know their next-door neighbors...
...justification in his mind is vague. "I wanted them to see," says this murderer of women and children. Slowly the camera moves away, farther and farther, until he is swallowed up in the vast scale of Australia. One suddenly sees the Olympian view of the situaion. Like so many next-door neighbors interviewed on the television news, one is compelled to say: "We couldn't have known. We never thought..." and yet, it is so close and obvious. The wilderness, again, the heart of darkness...
...skimming money off the top and is now understandably panicked, for he has been caught. There are men downstairs, strangers--this much he knows from his wife. In all probability these men have come to kill him and his whole family. Suddenly, the doorbell rings--it is Gloria, the next-door neighbor, who has run out of coffee. The accountant, who has run out of time, gives her instead his son, and a ledger. Gloria goes back to her apartment with the boy, and the Mob comes and murders the accountant, his wife, and his daughter...
...month and the remainder before December. Binaisa is unsure about the loyalty of the new Ugandan army, which placed its first 5,700 troops on active duty last week, and is worried by reports that an armed faction loyal to former President Apolo Milton Obote -Nyerere's next-door neighbor in Dar es Salaam since he was ousted by Amin in a 1971 coup-was massing in the north. Thus Binaisa asked Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi for troops to replace the departing Tanzanians. But Moi, whose country has been at odds with Tanzania since the breakdown...
...screams. The protagonist, Francis Geminiani, a Harvard junior back home in Philadelphia for the summer, leans out his second-story window, plants a speaker on the sill in a grand gesture of defiance, and blares an opera record to combat the 7 a.m. assault. This awakens his obese next-door neighbor, Bunny Weinberger, who throws open her second-story window and screeches at him to "turn off that shitty music." Besides, she yells, one of those workers is her uncle. (Everyone, you see, is Family, and no one can invade like a relative.) The opening barrage establishes a histrionic level...