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...pages; $13), a gathering of the author's previously uncollected nonfiction, plus five unpublished short stories. Three of them were found by the poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's companion for the last decade of his life and wife for his last few months, in the home they shared at Port Angeles, Wash.; the other two turned up among Carver's papers at Ohio State University. In a foreword, Gallagher notes that she had reservations about making public stories that her late husband had not finished to his satisfaction: "Ray would sometimes take a story through 30 rewrites. These stories...
...Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (Viking; 764 pages; $39.95). As Smith describes it, her search through the often crumbling documents (some uncatalogued at the JFK Library in Boston, some forgotten in a warehouse in Long Island City, N.Y., and others found in the attic above the room in Hyannis Port, Mass., where Joe Kennedy died in 1969) has a quality of the newsreel reporter's quest for Charles Foster Kane...
There have been some high-profile busts of crooked officials. Last month 14 people were sentenced to death in connection with a $10 billion oil-, car- and cigarette-smuggling case in the southern port city of Xiamen. The alleged ringleader Lai Changzing is currently fighting extradition in Canada. But despite Jiang's declaration of war on financial scams, cases involving powerful officials often get held up or dismissed because of "lack of evidence." Jiang himself is not above protecting his friends. When the Xiamen case was on the verge of implicating the wife of Beijing party chief Jia Qinglin...
Marnet would rather be a forklift driver than a cocaine trafficker. But Haiti has a lot more demand for the latter--especially in the northern port of Cap-Haitien, where Marnet, 29, watched this fall as his one honest meal ticket, the U.S. Army, shipped home the last of its intervention forces. "I may have to join my friends and be a welder," he said--not just any welder but a narco welder, who refits ships to hide drugs. Marnet walked to a cargo vessel, where two large generators powered the torches he said his pals were using to solder...
...cash flowing back in the Samsonites is so lavish that money-wiring agencies in Port-au-Prince post signs limiting transfers to Colombia to $1,000. Haiti, of course, has no money-laundering laws. The money is fueling a grossly incongruous boom in luxury-home construction in Port-au-Prince and, say locals, paying for a glitzy new shopping center in more impoverished Port-de-Paix. The mall was built by Michel Oreste, 70, whom Haitian officials describe as a modern-day successor to the buccaneers who once controlled the northern coast. Oreste denies involvement in drugs, and while Haitian...