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...ritual protestations of humility and reassurance, was shouted down." Going to look at the onetime Berlin Wall, the reporter finds that it is now a nature preserve. "A unique biotope," says an official. "There are wild rabbits here, hedgehogs, opossums." The problem is that the environmentalists' efforts to get rid of the Wall are being blocked by art historians. "They regard the Wall as a work of art," the official complains, "because of the graffiti." An expatriated Scot finally explains to the American that the "famous reunification" back in the 1990s was "all just coffee and cakes." "Do you still...
...shore of Chesapeake Bay, watermen surreptitiously plan to get rid of a corpse before anyone can discover it. But a small boy has witnessed the killing, and he knows who pulled the trigger: his father. On the Western plains, a frightened woman leaves her husband and four young children. He tracks her down, and she relents as "her body starts flowing toward the baby." A man returns to the ranch where his mother has married a drunken old farmhand and finds she has done the right thing. In a Father's Place (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 214 pages; $18.95) is filled...
...Leonard ends up with two cruelly heavy suitcases filled with human remains is the climax of The Innocent, told with all McEwan's frigid skill. The last part of the book is a hilarious account of the young man's attempts to rid himself of his obnoxious burden. The cases won't fit in railway lockers. A dog smells their contents and tries frantically to avenge the canine species for centuries of subjugation. Finally exhausted, Leonard draws the vultures of both security and treachery to the tunnel...
...with his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, an army officer who in 1941 supported a failed attempt to topple Iraq's British-controlled monarchy. Talfah's five-year imprisonment instilled in the young Saddam a profound bitterness that would give rise to a nationalistic fervor and an acute desire to rid not only Iraq but also the entire Arab world of foreign influence...
...foreign policy too we have to get rid of the command-administrative system ((jargon for dictatorial rule)). There's no other choice. It's the imperative of our time...