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...charity. This year, when the charities called, "we told 'em to call Montpelier--all that money went to Act 60 taxes," says owner Ron Bauer. Even angrier are affluent parents who moved to postage-stamp towns in part for the excellent schools. "This is Marxism," howls novelist John Irving, whose son is a Dorset kindergartner. "It's leveling everything by decimating what works... It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm...
Beat Generation novelist and icon William S. Burroughs '36 died Aug. 2, in Lawrence, Kans., of a heart attack...
LONDON: What do novelist Jeffrey Archer, Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson and Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson have in common? Answer: They all have the opportunity to fulfill their dream to become the first Lord Mayor of London elected by a popular vote, after the British capital voted late Thursday in favor of having one. Another thing they have in common -- Londoners don?t want them...
...come. Almost 100 years after his death, in a multimedia postmortem comeback spearheaded by a Broadway play and a feature film (both British imports that hit U.S. shores this week) and including countless books and websites, Oscar Wilde, the infamously persecuted--some say martyred--gay Irish playwright, poet and novelist, is threatening to become the aesthete's Elvis...
...Crace's Quarantine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 243 pages; $23) novelizes the Temptations of Christ, adding a plot bubbling with sin and a supporting cast of odd pilgrims. Crace, a British journalist turned novelist (The Gift of Stones, Continent), is not the first writer to take fictional liberties with Scripture. He won't be the last. But his new effort proves to be one of the more successful reimaginings. Readers and critics in Britain thought so: when Quarantine was published there last year, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award...