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...account of a mean prank worthy of Flannery O'Connor at her darkest, "Heavy" is one of Southern's most pointed comments about human nature, and a perfect example of his crisp, succinct approach to writing (one can think of several crime novelists - e.g.think Donald Westlake - who would have spun "Heavy" into a full-length "scam" novel...
...stolen Volkswagen truck roared along the chaotic main street of Nablus. As Kamel Salameh wove the VW through the morning rush-hour traffic, he slammed into nine-year-old Islam Atallah. She spun off the hood like a doll, dead. With screaming tires, Salameh turned his truck and sped off. He headed for Balata refugee camp at the edge of Nablus. The patrolmen chasing him were nervous. The camp is a no-go area for Yasser Arafat's police. Salameh swerved into Balata's narrow streets and disappeared. Soon after, the police found the truck abandoned, but Salameh had melted...
...suppose I should be grateful that America?s cell phone craze hasn?t spun completely out of control. In Australia, ornithologists have discovered that the country?s so-called "mimic birds" are starting to use cell phone noises in place of their traditional mating calls. Australia?s cell phones are so pervasive, scientists fear, even birds living in rural areas are familiar with the tone. You?ve got to give the birds some credit. What better way to grab a mate?s undivided attention? Our feathered friends have obviously taken note of the phenomenon known as "Ooh-hang-on-while...
...Later in 1998, the Harvard Private Capital Group, which had been overseen by Eisenson—spun off as Charlesbank Capital Partners, and took with it $1.4 billion from...
...world's biggest telecommunications equipment makers, not a bad thing for Tchuruk to put on his résumé. For another, despite the pummeling it has take in the stock market, Lucent - which set a record for the biggest ipo in history when it was spun off from AT&T in 1996 - still retains some glossy assets, among them a huge U.S. sales force and customer base and the research capabilities of its highly regarded Bell Laboratories. (Although any deal involving a foreign takeover of that research facility, which does some highly sensitive work for U.S. agencies, will certainly...