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...know that the mentally ill--paranoid schizophrenics, for example--hear menacing voices speaking from unlikely sources (harmless strangers, inanimate objects), or they read malignant meanings into random events, or they think the very furniture will rise up and murder them. Horrors like Flight 800 tend to nudge the sanest minds into the demoralized routines of paranoids. They grow jumpy, irrational. Such familiar rituals as air travel turn sinister...
Attention mafianados! at the age of 75, and more than 20 years after Don Vito Corleone and the rest of the Godfather gang abandoned the page for a more glamorous life on the screen, Mario Puzo has started a new family. The Last Don (Random House; 482 pages; $25.95) introduces the Clericuzios, a crime clan based in the Bronx, New York, and at the peak of its dark powers. Fortunately, Puzo too is in top form...
Three Cheers for Hypocrisy would make a suitable subtitle for The Last Don. "Mario writes about the hearts of thieves and thievery in our hearts. He is fascinated by the moral ironies in life," says Random House editor Karp. Puzo's own are no exception. Before he wrote The Godfather, Puzo spent years vainly trying to gamble his way out of debt. Eventually crime paid, but not in the way he thought it would...
...bombers and proclaiming the games would go on. Two days after the attack, Atlantans and visitors to the games are packing Olympic venues and strolling through the streets. The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games is enhancing security in Centennial Park, which is set to reopen on Tuesday. Random bag searches are part of the upgraded security precautions. As 17 of the people injured in the bomb attack remained in the hospital, the FBI searched busily for the bombers. Coping with a deluge of information Terence Nelan
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