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...Pete Dexter...
...Pete Dexter's eerie knack for placing himself inside the skin of even the minor players in his novels may be something like perfect pitch for a musician. It is a useful trick, done with no apparent effort -- in Dexter's case with no literary showiness whatsoever -- but by itself it does not make an artist. What deepens and darkens his writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths...
...bragging to a little person who is going to be her undoing. The sense of aloneness is born of a mistrust of underlings, which can approach Howard Hughes' isolationism. The adventure-seeking behavior can be insider trader Dennis Levine plotting to dupe SEC regulators with offshore bank accounts. Pete Rose, Gary Hart, Imelda Marcos, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken: they all seem to have committed self-destructive acts that follow on the heels of enormous success. I have never met or treated any of them, but they do fit a prototype that I've derived from both...
...bill, which for the first time would award compensatory damages to victims of sexual harassment. But even after the recent outpouring of testimony about the problem, congressional lobbyists are not sure the Senate will produce the votes to override a presidential veto. When a similar bill came before Governor Pete Wilson in California last week, he killed...
...revolving-credit operation. Optima managers lacked the subtle nuances of knowing when to close bad accounts and start collecting. As a result, in the second quarter Optima's charge-off rate on accounts unpaid after 180 days was 8%, or about twice the average for similar cards. Says Alex (Pete) Hart, president of MasterCard: "American Express painfully ; discovered that the revolving-credit business is a different animal...