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...read Kit Troyer's review of "Black Rain," I learned that this tradition continues. It was the height of irony to find that in the same review of a movie denounced for "reinforc[ing] some long-standing racial stereotypes," the author describes one character as a "Japanese mafioso." Does the Editorial Board (which offered no disclaimer) express the belief that criminals worldwide owe their existence to an illicit network originating on Sicily at the turn of this century? Or is your belief that Italians are in general archetypal criminals...
...word "mafioso" to describe a member of a criminal organization displays the very kind of bias your review purports to loathe. It perpetuates the insulting and degrading view of Italian-Americans as godfathers and hit-men. And while I do not deny that a small minority of Italians belonged to violent criminals organizations, I challenge Mr. Troyer to name one ethnic group which has not produced a criminal...
Critics of the Everglades suit charged -- correctly -- that Lehtinen went to court without consulting either the Justice or the Interior Department. Governor Martinez asked Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to settle the suit or drop it. Last December Lehtinen was summoned to Washington for a review of his actions. It seemed the suit would be scrapped, but Lehtinen, by agreeing to drop the most sweeping charges, returned with both Justice and Interior on his side...
...exploring the peculiar quirks and flaws in the justice's personality. It is with some degree of harshness that Novick relates Holmes' frigid diary entry on the day he was married to his wife Fanny, around the time he was made the sole editor of the American Law Review: "Married. Sole editor...
Although reading dust-jacket review clips is a filthy habit which I wouldn't encourage in anyone, it was the back of this book which drew me in. (The front cover is incredibly ugly; don't let it deter you.) One of the best of English travel writers (who has also done some exploring of our America, in Old Glory, a fabulous journey down the Mississippi), Jonathan Raban, describes her earlier work as a "romance with America itself, its infinitely possible geography, its license, sexiness, and violence." The description clearly fits this new novel, and romance is a well-chosen...