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Payson K. Dartlett, 29, allegedly entered the Wainwright Bank at about 10:15 a.m. and passed the teller a note demanding cash...
...there is one Forbes idea most of his supporters can name: the flat tax, which 27% of those surveyed gave as their No. 1 reason for preferring him. Says Cindy Connelly, 33, a part-time bank teller in Cope, South Carolina: "Other than the flat tax, I really don't know a whole lot about him, but what I have heard I like. The income tax is made with loopholes for the rich...
Rushdie's more explicit answer to the Ayatollah can be found in his children's story Haroun and the Sea of Stories, published soon after The Satanic Verses. In this story, a renowned and persecuted story-teller is given two opposing nicknames: some call him the Ocean of Notions, others the Shah of Blah. The same dichotomy can be seen in Rushdie. His political significance has less to do with his writing than it does with his continued existence, the living hero of a sometimes abstract cause. We read Rushdie, though, because in his work larger forces--the forces...
...novel pivots around Libby Holden (very loosely inspired by Betsey Wright), the Governor's former chief of staff, fresh from the loony bin, who calls herself "the Dustbuster" and sets about to clean up the mess from the candidate's self-destructive personal life. Holden is the classic truth teller--bound to the Stantons, but also sadly clear-eyed about how their youthful idealism had been transformed into chilling cynicism in the pursuit of power...
NEAR THE END OF THE MOOR'S Last Sigh (Pantheon; 434 pages; $25), a madman holds the novel's narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, prisoner. The captor, an old but rejected friend of Zogoiby's late, flamboyant mother, demands a history of her family before killing its teller. "He had made a Scheherazade of me," Moraes writes. "As long as my tale held his interest he would let me live...