Word: puzzler
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...remaining questions go well beyond pesky details, though there is no end of those, to basics that can be decided only in the Oval Office. Among them: Just what should the basic benefit package include? The answer will go far to clear up another puzzler: How much is the whole plan likely to cost? Whatever the figure, how will that cost be paid -- whose taxes should be raised how much? "These are all tough ones, and there are trade-offs with each, none of which are easy," says Magaziner...
John Bartholomew Tucker wins the prize for the year's best mystery title: He's Dead -- She's Dead: Details at Eleven (St. Martin's Press; 312 pages; $17.95). The puzzler that follows is just as piquant. Jim Sasser, onetime TV commentator and now a writer of thrillers, stops by the network to see an old Vietnam war buddy. He is not a happy camper. Cost cutting is under way, firings are the order of the day, and a terrorist is threatening to do some eliminating of his own. For a lark, Sasser decides to probe, just...