Word: robber
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Bestselling author Margaret Atwood read excerpts and signed copies of her latest novel, The Robber Bride, at the Cambridge Public Library last night...
...Robber Bride explores the character of a female villain who torments the lives of three other women throughout the novel...
...Great Depression has a wonderful ability to seem both definitive and quirky at the same time. Episodes are organized around people and events that, at first glance, seem like mere sideshows: Oklahoma bank robber Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, for instance, or the construction of New York City's Triborough Bridge. Yet each is skillfully woven into the larger picture: the glamourization of lawbreaking as economic hard times hit; New York City as a laboratory for the new relationship between Washington and local government. The people interviewed are not, by and large, major players but ordinary folks -- former sharecroppers, union organizers...
...When Katherine Anne Power -- '60s radical, bank robber, fugitive -- turned herself in last week after 23 years on the run, she added another entry to her already crowded resume: unwitting historian. Her brief explanatory statement released upon her surrender to Boston police is a document historians of the future, puzzling over what happened to the '60s, will find useful...
Cable-TV operators are the robber barons of this end of the century, having built businesses by tuning in local broadcasters' signals, then sending all ^ those programs out along their wires. That's right: what they grab for free, they sell, in bulk, to you. A year ago, after fervid lobbying by the broadcast networks, Congress passed a law obliging the cable operators to start compensating the broadcasters -- or drop the networks from the cable menus...