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...glad we got more money for education," noted Widener employee Ann Norton...
...ANYONE WHO CARES TO MEET A JOURnalist who has been happy in his work, THE SWAMP ROOT CHRONICLE (Norton; $24.95) is heartily recommended. In this peppy memoir, Robert Manning traces his career through the wire services, TIME and John Kennedy's State Department, plus 16 years as editor in chief of the Atlantic until he was sandbagged -- there seems no better word for it -- by the magazine's present owner, Mort Zuckerman. It's hard to avoid smugness when recounting one's triumphs, and the author does not always succeed. Manning got his start at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press, which...
...superspy James Bond's savoir faire and flashy victories over cold war bad guys. It seems somehow fitting that Bill Clinton's favorite literary do-gooder is Easy Rawlins, a savvy, down-to-earth African-American private eye based in Los Angeles. In WHITE BUTTERFLY (Norton; $19.95), the third book in the Rawlins series, good-time girls, corrupt politicians, trigger-happy psychopaths and other crime-novel fixtures are all in place. But Walter Mosley's writing hums with the particular rhythms and blues of the black American experience. What makes these books special is their vivid portrayal of life...
...referendum on reinstating the death penalty, and election officials last week put a sweeping proposal on the Nov. 3 ballot. Nearly all the city's leading politicians appealed to residents to vote no as a means of expressing resentment against interference in the District's affairs. Said Eleanor Holmes Norton, the city's nonvoting delegate to Congress: "This is not about the death penalty. It is about home rule." But recent savage crimes have aroused such anger that the proposal has a chance of passing...
PUBLISHER: NORTON; 523 PAGES...