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...Oregon and a 26-year FBI veteran. Around Philadelphia agents met almost as much hostility as the civil rights workers had?one found several snakes in his car one morning. But the FBI built its case persistently. Agents infiltrated the White Knights of the Klan and paid out several thousand dollars for information...
Just so. Still, there have been moments worth the thousand-and-some pages of skulk and murk. Berlin Game should have been dedicated to divorced men everywhere, because in it Samson's supercilious, upper-class wife Fiona not only defects to the Soviets, but is revealed to be a KGB colonel. Samson and the dreaded Fiona skirmish at a distance in Mexico Set, the second book. At the end he appears to be ahead in this contest that seems a parody of postmarital discord, as he takes in hand Stinnes, a high-ranking Soviet defector...
True to the unstated bylaws of their trade, more than half of the thousand or so journalists who submitted their twelve-page application forms did so at the last possible moment. "We have applications from editorial writers, columnists, talk-show hosts, a music writer, photographers and sports reporters," said Project Public Affairs Coordinator Jack Bass as he and Project Director Eric Johnson waded through the deluge of last-minute entries. Some 5,500 forms had been requested and sent out since Dec. 1 by the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, which is coordinating the selection process...
Equally significant is the growing size of punitive damages, which supposedly serve the same purpose as a don't-ever-do-anything-like-that-again fine of the defendant. Juries sometimes find that a person's actual damages amounted to only a few thousand dollars, yet decide that the corporation at fault should also pay punitive damages in the millions. In one startling case, now awaiting decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, an Alabama couple sued Aetna Life & Casualty Co., claiming that it had wrongfully refused to pay $1,650 of the wife's hospital bill. A jury awarded them...
...distance from the field, two mountains rise into a white mist pulled across them by a wind like the hem of a woman's slip. Rain-shagged sheep, mops with four legs, pursue their ridiculous business of all-day eating. On this field over a thousand years ago, an assembly of all Iceland sat down to keep the peace. The obvious parallel pops up: many chieftains then, two chieftains now, striving for balance and order so the world does not run to ruin. It is a tradition in Iceland, this striving for equilibrium. The sagas, crazy as they got, almost...