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Even as his proposals were being raked over in Washington, Clinton could take some comfort from the reviews in the bars and coffee shops around the country. "I feel better about being bled," said Anne Bellamy, 40, as she sat at the bar of the Rusty Pelican in suburban Los Angeles. "I'm one of those girls who make $50,000 a year. I voted for the man fully understanding that my taxes would go up. It's a trade-off. The quality of life in America, not for myself but for everybody, is a real concern...
...estimable Higgins. It is a spreading gray ooze of lesser lawyer novels with indistinguishable titles, written perhaps for love, perhaps for glory, but probably to capitalize on the dumbfounding popularity of lawyer novels by Scott Turow (The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent) and John Grisham (The Firm, The Pelican Brief...
...PELICAN BRIEF...
...great surprise that The Pelican Brief, Grisham's new novel, is as close to its predecessor as you can get without running The Firm through the office copier. As before, a handsome young couple are pursued by thugs. In the background are members of a corrupt law firm who sleazily shuffle paper, rack up grossly inflated billable hours and conspire in the bumping off of a couple of liberal Supreme Court Justices...
Anyone interested in the doings of the Lolo tribes-people, the Tarahumara Indians, or the Berbers, Bedouins and Bushmen knew just where to look. Likewise, those curious about "The Geographical Distribution of Insanity in the U.S." (1903) or "Pelican Profiles" (1943), or anyone "In Quest of the World's Largest Frog" (1967), had a handy reference guide. For most of its 102 years, National Geographic has been a colorful coffee-table companion for armchair explorers, roaming the world with rose-colored glasses and bringing back a cheery album of natives at play. But last week the abrupt firing of veteran...