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...contribution to the industry" says Goldstein, "we have told manufacturers that we reserve our unquestionable right to refuse to carry the same items as warehouse clubs." Goldstein adds that the practice is central to Toys R Us' ability to compete, "supposedly the ultimate goal of FTC policy." Scot Woods...
...moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title figure is Xuela Claudette Richardson, 70, a native of Dominica, by ancestry a mix of Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself--as did Kincaid--and makes her way in the world by allying with various men, eventually marrying...
This was not the first time King had been lucky with a New York City jury. In the 1985 tax-evasion case, the promoter got off scot-free while one of his loyal female employees took the fall. According to Jack Newfield's biography Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King, King flew most of those jurors to London for the Tim Witherspoon--Frank Bruno heavyweight title bout eight months after the trial and put them up in a luxury hotel, burying the expenses as part of the fight's promotion...
Prairie Reunion by Barbara J. Scot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 230 pages; $21) is a bittersweet homecoming story tracing the author's return in middle age to the puritannical farming community where she grew up. In Scotch Grove, Iowa, she tries to piece together the puzzle of her mother's loving stoicism in the face of her father's humiliating desertion and subsequent suicide. Structured as a patchwork of conversations, childhood recollections and lyrical encounters with the land, Scot's quietly earnest quest yields her valuable understanding of her mother's reticence and a deeper appreciation of the mysteries of family...
...this not because it matters one bit to me what happens to an aging football player (it doesn't). Nor do I make any claim about his guilt or innocence. I say this because if he gets off scot-free, every talk-radio show in America will be deluged with callers demanding that trial by jury...