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...TITLE: SIN...
...SIN IN THE TITLE IS ENVY. Iago, weep. In her second book -- her first was last year's best-selling Damage -- British novelist Josephine Hart has concocted a silly piece of romantic formula and fitted it out with enough heavy portents to sustain a Greek myth. "They say the veil that hides the future from us was woven by an angel of mercy," she muses. Or, "Novelists of our own lives, making ourselves up from bits of other people, using the dead and living to tell our tale, we tell tales." And this is only in the prologue...
...need arises, as it so often does. Their conversation is spare and broody and liberally sprinkled with dots: "I lack the . . . the stamina . . . yes." Along the way the cliches mount, crowned by the blatant use of children's deaths to prod the action toward some kind of climax; otherwise Sin would be a serial. Here's hoping the other six vices are not on Hart's agenda...
...belly" and noted his problem with "bimbo eruptions." Carville, who serves as one of Clinton's top strategists and phrasemakers, quickly fired back, calling his inamorata's memo "new evidence that the Bush campaign is out of control." Carville, obviously pained by the situation, added, "You can hate the sin and love the sinner...
...that HIV is innocent of causing AIDS. And yes, he is still optimistic that effective vaccines will be found, probably before the year 2000. He, for one, does not plan to be working on AIDS for the rest of his career. But then, who knows? "Dogmatism is a deadly sin in science," says Montagnier...