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...that he was compelled to vomit. Eichhorn's life-long anti-authoritarianism seems to emerge from the experience. The book moves on to tales of Eichhorn's days as a high school and college football player. These include accounts of Eichhorn's witnessing a jailbreak while scrimmaging with a prison team, kicking out the eyeball of a menacing townie, and participating in group sex with a few dozen freshmen and a nurse named Rosie...
When The Dew Breaker (Knopf; 244 pages), Edwidge Danticat's book of linked stories, begins, a young artist born in Brooklyn, N.Y.--Haitian, though she's never been to Haiti--learns from her father how he acquired the scar on his cheek he brought back from prison. He wasn't one of those receiving punishments, he tells his already unsettled daughter; he was one inflicting them. His sense of guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book...
...ironic admission for an industry that has embraced customer background checks, the parent company of Smith & Wesson, the second-biggest handgun maker in the U.S., last week acknowledged it recently named James Minder, 74, chairman of the board without knowing he had spent 15 years in Michigan prisons for a string of armed robberies and an attempted prison break. Although his days as a sawed-off-shotgun-toting college student are long gone--he has had a clean record since 1969--by law Minder can't own or even handle a firearm. Asked why he didn't disclose his past...
...proverbial big house. After deliberating for three days at the end of a five week trial, a jury found the icon of domestic taste guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and two counts of making false statements - a rap sheet that could earn her up to 20 years in prison. Her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic was convicted on charges of conspiracy, perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Moments after the verdict, Stewart in a statement on her Website said she would appeal...
...Waksal is already serving a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to securities fraud over his family's sale of their own ImClone stock. Sentencing experts reportedly suspect Stewart will be sentenced to jail time, although probably a minimal term. But the conviction could deal a heavy blow to the future business prospects of an empire branded on the good name and reputation of its eponymous icon...