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Advising them, for a fee, is a canny Manhattan p.r. mogul named Lucien Joyce, who lures some journalists to the event with the usual promises of complimentary travel, lodgings, food and booze. One of these veteran junketeers is J. Sutter, an African-American freelancer who has been covering, on someone else's tab, staged events every day for three months. Why not, he asks himself, just keep going until he breaks the freeloading record, whatever that...
...meantime, Sutter must endure and write up this Talcott festival for his Internet employer of the moment: "A bloodless edit will follow...and one day an electronic burp with his byline will float up into the Web morass, a little bubble of content he will never...
...Whitehead's main characters, starting but by no means ending with Sutter, are so hip and ironic and jaded that they can't imagine--indeed, they would be embarrassed by and scornful of--the meaning of the novel they inhabit. John Henry Days is a narrative tour de force that astonishes on almost every page, but it generates more glitter and brilliance than warmth...
...like to think there was a huzzah or two, but no one knows. We do know the group "retreated, in regular order, to Mr. Sutter's Fountain Inn, where an elegant dinner was provided. The whole concluded with the greatest harmony and order...
...against providing voluntary, on-call backup, a critical component of the ED system. To keep them on duty, some hospitals have to fork out $1,000 daily bonuses to neurosurgeons and orthopedists. "We are on the brink of an implosion," cautions Dr. Loren Johnson, director of the ED at Sutter-Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif., and co-chair of an industry task force that investigated the problem. The state lacks the capacity to handle a major catastrophe, like an earthquake or forest fire, a report by the California emergency-medical-services authority recently found...