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...become a corruption prosecutor, municipal judge and U.S. Attorney. And it will probably guide him as the nation's 82nd Attorney General. Holder takes over a sprawling, 110,000-person Justice Department that was treated at times like a private law firm by the Bush Administration, both in its novel interpretation of the law and in the way it purged employees who did not share its political views. Returning to the department he helped run in the late 1990s, Holder invited all employees to his grand fifth-floor office to introduce themselves. "It's good to be back," he said...
...only 8 dollars for the whole box! What a deal! Cackling madly, he rips open the cardboard container to get to his spoils, only to find that his search for value was an utter failure. The conspiracy had extended to retail; the were only Eight in the Box. This novel is based on a true story. Imagining America in 2033By Herbert J. GansIn this gripping work of post-modern historical fiction (or, “pomo hifi,” or “pofi”), a young writer struggles to discover whether his waking life has been reality...
When I began writing about Washington more than 30 years ago, it was a fairly modest town. There were lobbyists; there always had been - just read Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's hilarious novel The Gilded Age. But in the 1980s, I began to notice that the lobbies of the buildings where the lobbyists lived had gone all marble and melodramatic. A new class of steak houses hit town: now you can buy a Kobe beefsteak for $175 in some joints. The limos multiplied; McMansions sprouted in the near suburbs. In a way, Daschle - a very decent...
...young engineers constructed their own drilling rig with materials from a local hardware shop in Constanza. They used a novel drilling technique developed by Terry Waller, a missionary working with Water For All International, a non-governmental organization based in Texas...
...have never heard of the Monkey Wrench Gang-unless you read the 1975 novel by maverick writer and nature lover Edward Abbey, who introduced the world to a fictional collection of green misfits waging a guerrilla war against industrialization in the American West. They sabotage bulldozers and construction sites, burn billboards and destroy dams, all to keep their beloved Southwestern desert pristine. Think of it as muscular environmentalism, a world apart from the wonky work on climate change that now defines the mainstream green movement...