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...Washington's federal district court, meanwhile, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson postponed until October the perjury trial of another onetime top Administration official, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. Deaver is accused of lying to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities; Jackson put back the trial to settle the issue of whether prospective jurors should be questioned in public or private...
...grand jury last year. As a courtesy, Seymour telephoned Deaver's attorneys on Tuesday to inform them of the impending indictments. But Deaver's lawyers, led by former Nixon Attorney Herbert ("Jack") Miller, beat Seymour to the courthouse the following morning. After hearing their arguments, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order blocking any indictments until the constitutional issues have been examined at a hearing in early March...
...friend is Warren Penfield, a failed poet who prints his own works, a baleful-eyed generous man, fatter than Warren Harding himself, a world-traveler, a peculiar sort of war hero, a Buddhist. Penfield twists the story; he exists in the first person at times, but these are Joe's versions of Penfield. And Doctorow dances between the future and the past. One moment Penfield is a coal miner's son from Seattle, the next he is a Caucasian gorilla probing the mysteries of Zen in a rice palace outside Tokyo. And Doctorow's prose switches just as quickly...
...Penfield, associate dean of the Dartmouth Medical School, said the cooperative program will allow each school to concentrate its resources on one area of a medical school education and reduce overall costs...
Doctorow may try to do too much in Loon Lake. When the poet Penfield reminisces about his experiences in Japan, for instance, he seems to belong in a different novel. But the author's skill at historical reconstruction, so evident in Ragtime, remains impressive here; the novel's fragments and edgy, nervous rhythms call up an age of clashing anxiety. Loon Lake tantalizes long after it is ended. As Penfield writes about the bird that gives its name to the Bennett estate, "The cry of loons once heard is not forgotten...