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...written. "Wonder Boys" (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel that character Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. TIME critic John Skow pans Wonder Boys as a "series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together as a novel...
...next thing he knows, he has landed, Dorothy-like, in an entirely different world. Somehow Daniel's boat has washed up onto a vast plain of parched earth, with not a drop of water in sight. It's Patrick Swayze as Pecos Bill, and not Glinda the Good Witch, who arrives in a cyclone, just in time to rescue Daniel from two comically imbecilic vagrants poised to kill Daniel for his gold fillings...
...have everything," Dowling said. "Ifwe could somehow still retain that wonderfulrelationship, that would be a terrific thing todo...
...will that be the end. Assume, for the moment, that the Treasury does somehow come up with the cash to redeem the bonds in the trust fund. Some time around the year 2029, when Generation X starts to retire, the trust fund--even if it existed at all--would be empty. At that point, to maintain pension payments, even at a reduced level, the Social Security tax by some calculations will have to be raised to 17% of wages--a level that would devastate the economy...
...inquiring police take a cheeky tone with him: "Yes, well, your ... friend has gone a bit missing, to tell you the truth, Mr. Cranmer, sir." And then Tim is called back to his former office to be grilled and told something astonishing: Larry and his last KGB contact have somehow stolen some L37 million from the Russian government. His ex-bosses think the high-living Tim may have shared in the booty. They demand his passport and order him to talk to no one but them...