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Italy, of course, is a favored setting of English and American fiction in which innocents abroad are stirred by art and sensuality. Spencer continues to use the convention effectively. The Cousins, a story in her newest collection, Jack of Diamonds, could be titled Maidenhead Revisited. Ella Mason, 50 and recently widowed, returns to Florence, where she and her hometown cousins from Martinsville, Ala., enjoyed a summer's frolic 30 years ago. One of them, Eric, now lives in Italy, and through a pleating of conversations and memories, Spencer reveals a complexity of attitudes and relationships. Not the least of them...
Often the cash vanishes from vaults only to reappear in the wallets of executives, who use it for personal pleasure. After Bell Savings and Loan of San Mateo, Calif., failed in 1985 with losses totaling $495 million, authorities found that Partner David Butler had used corporate funds to buy expensive racing airplanes for his exclusive use. Butler pleaded guilty to two felony counts and is awaiting sentencing. In the ongoing investigation of the failure of Texas-based Vernon Savings and Loan, in which regulators charge that top officials have looted the S and L for their own gain, former Senior...
...deal, the indictment alleges, Gaubert, a friend of House Speaker Jim Wright, bought land for 50 cents per sq. ft., then sold it the same day for $5.25 per sq. ft., pocketing $5.6 million in profits. Gaubert, who denies any wrongdoing, says the Republican Administration is trying to use the Justice Department to embarrass Wright...
Sheehy does occasionally put her thorough reporting skills to good use, producing some well-written chapters about the so-called "character flaws" of the candidates. Her opening chapters on Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson are incredibly damning, but she then settles down to portray Dole, Gore and Dukakis in a largely favorable light...
Significant gains have been made since the days when blacks in the South were allowed to sit on only one side of the courtroom. In 1986, for example, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for prosecutors to use peremptory challenges to keep blacks off juries. A few months later, an all-white jury in Alabama awarded $7 million to a black mother who sued the United Klans of America over the lynching death of her son, a far cry from the days when an all-white Mississippi panel freed two white men in the infamous 1955 murder...