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...novel could have shared some of the uproar that has descended on Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Here is a wealthy, morally rudderless white male stalking through a city, in this case Chicago, looking for trouble. Parker Jagoda, a successful real estate developer, has a child in the northern suburb of Evanston and a sleek, sophisticated wife who works as a professional model and periodically arranges to meet him in hotels for ritualized bouts of fantasy sex. Still, Parker wants more. He puts personal ads in local papers, and bears an odd grudge against the women who respond. One night...
...high school friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity says the town Kerrigan lived in is by no means part of the deep South, but is merely "a very wealthy Washington suburb...
ReRe Avegno, a real estate agent in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb, remembers exactly when her phone started ringing off the hook: a few days into the allied air campaign, when it became clear that the U.S.-led forces in the gulf had gained the upper hand. As long as the possibility existed of a protracted and ruinously expensive war, many Americans were frozen in an anxious stasis in which they were delaying major financial decisions. Says John Tuccillo, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors: "With the flush of victory, people are going out looking for houses." Some...
...grisliest sights," said Dowell, "was the morgue at Al-Sabah Hospital. All of the bodies had been mutilated." Reporter Lara Marlowe found a resistance headquarters in the suburb of Qarain, where she was shown 16 Iraqi prisoners. "No one realized what evil the Iraqis had done until we got here," she said. "It was hard to understand how these frightened, wounded people could be part of a war machine that raped and tortured...
Captured Iraqi soldiers try to blame the brutalities on Saddam. Last week the resistance was holding 16 of them, ages 18 to 47, at a small house in a Kuwait City suburb. An antiaircraft gun stood in the garden, and the garage was stacked with grenades and ammunition boxes, one of which bore the logo of the Jordanian armed forces...