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...Redux (1971), this third novel about the life and times of Harold C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom seems, at first, uneventful. No infants drown in bathtubs, no houses burn down, leaving innocent dead behind. The year is 1979. Skylab is falling, gas prices are rising, and Rabbit, 46, sells Toyotas for Springer Motors, the firm founded by his late father-in-law. His on-and-off marriage to Janice is on again, glumly and apparently for good. They live with her mother and sock away money. Rabbit thinks less and less about his days as a high school basketball star...
...Gregory Springer is writing a novel about a gay soccer team...
After three hours of intense competition, Lisa Springer of Solon, Ohio defeated 4378 other Ohio State University students to win the world's largest game of musical chairs...
...really didn't have a strategy," Springer, a ceramics major, said after it was over. "I just tried to be in the right place at the right time. I really didn't have to fight for the chairs...
...which he has become a working-class hero and crusader for socialism. To further this cause, Wallraff infiltrates not only the government, but also industry, political and religious organizations. In his most celebrated case, he exposed fraudulent articles printed in the establishment newspaper Bild, an arm of the powerful Springer press...