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The perils of first novelists have been widely, even lugubriously described. The typical sad story can be summarized with dispatch: unresponsive agents, inattentive publishers, small printings, nonexistent publicity, scattered reviews, laughable sales. Sometimes, though, this scenario breaks down. A few first novels are rapturously received, their authors transformed overnight from...
By week's end the Conservatives, who had worried about voter complacency and expected to lose hundreds of seats had actually gained 75. The Labor Party was the big loser, dropping 227 seats. The Alliance, the moderate coalition of David Steel's Liberals and David Owen's Social Democrats, gained...
To Adler, those standards are clear as the morning. Among them: liberty, truth, goodness, beauty, equality and justice, all of which he expounded on in a 1981 book entitled Six Great Ideas. He has argued, seduced, wheedled and bullied students to embrace these and other (to him) immutable concepts in...
It was a well-funded, high-tech guerrilla war. Within the first year, the conspirators had transferred $3.6 million from California to Idaho. They also planned to set up a "secure nationwide computer system" to link scattered far-right groups. Authorities expect they have not heard the last of the...
We have received scattered reports that a chain letter scheme involving U.S. Savings Bonds has surfaced in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. As you know, these schemes can spread rapidly. The Bureau of Public Dept has asked Federal Reserve Banks to contact all issuing agents informing them of the...