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...movie Wall Street and a shelf of recent nonfiction, not to mention such Eisenhower-era cautionary tales as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Katz's prose is competent, his dialogue serviceable and his cast of characters large and mostly faceless (although its obsessives stand out: a shopworn survivor of the executive-suite wars; a by-hook-or-by-crook booker of talk-show interviewees; and a tough, moralistic accountant...
There are laughs where only Roth can find them: a nutty Auschwitz survivor hustling his pornographic Holocaust novel. But elsewhere, readers may find themselves close to tears. Looking at the magnetic-resonance images of the growth that is killing his father, Roth thinks, "This was the tissue that had manufactured his set of endless worries and sustained for more than eight decades his stubborn self-discipline, the source of everything that had so frustrated me as his adolescent son." And also powered Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint...
...worth the risk. He and his associates have treated 67 advanced breast-cancer patients in this manner over the past four years. Though 11 have died of complications, mostly infections, 16 are in complete remission, seemingly disease free. "That means 1 in every 4 is a long-term survivor," he says. Others are not persuaded. "I am not convinced that we have the benefits to justify the toxicity," says Harvard oncologist I. Craig Henderson, noting that, regardless of treatment, 10% of women with advanced, metastatic disease will be alive after 10 years. Such doubts have led many insurance companies...
...carnage occurred at a rally last week for the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the popular priest who is the front runner in this Sunday's presidential elections and a survivor of at least three assassination attempts. Father Aristide blamed the violence on the Tontons Macoutes, the notorious secret police force loyal to the deposed Duvalier dictatorship. Together with the army, the Macoutes had forced cancellation of the 1987 elections by massacring 34 voters. But this time Haitians seemed determined to vote, no matter what calamities occurred on the campaign trail. Said a caller to Radio Haiti-Inter...
...writing this to you because I have sat with you in classrooms, waited in lines behind you at The Coop, passed you in the Yard 100 times--but I have never had a chance to talk to you. I am writing because you are a survivor of rape and your rapist was never punished...