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What follows is a novel only in the sense that it has a lot of pages not devoted to phone numbers. There is no plot and certainly nothing that could be called character development. Ah, but character disintegration, character vaporized and sucked away by the office air conditioning, that's another matter. Bronson describes a sales floor where twitchy, sweating wretches are flogged back to their cubicles by a demented sales manager when they sprint for the rest rooms. They pluck random, cooked statistics from their Quotrons, bark hopeless lies into speed-dial phones, fill impossible quotas by selling federal...
...terror-plot trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, jurors were shown dramatic videotapes that, the government maintains, recorded the defendants at work. Prosecutors said one clip showed a co-defendant taking a scouting drive through a major New York City tunnel to explore where to plant a bomb, and another recorded some of the defendants trying to build an explosive. Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of the government informer whose cooperation made the tapes possible...
...Farrakhan-Plot Case...
...succeed with a musical such as this one? By playing it straight. This is no update. We're still back in 1961, and the World Wide Wicket Co. continues to be a domain of rigid sexual roles, where men are the executives and women the secretaries. The plot remains a complementary blend of monomanias: Finch has eyes only for the top of the corporate ladder, and Rosemary, his secretary (winningly played by Megan Mullally), has eyes only for matrimony...
...determine whether it was possible for one man using a rifle with a telescopic sight to have killed the American president. An FBI informant told Hoover that Castro speculated that "it took about three people" to do the deed. Cuba has insisted that the CIA was behind the plot. ButTIME senior writer Bruce Nelansays the news won't change many minds in the U.S. "It sounds like a defensive maneuver on Castro's part," Nelan says. "If you did it, you would do something to make it seem that you hadn...