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Misoso, by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Reynold Ruffins (Knopf; $18), is a fascinating collection of traditional African tales, which are bound to be new to New World kids: "One morning a toad said to a rat, 'I can do something that you can't do.' 'What?' cried the rat. 'You don't even know how to run. You just throw yourself, lop -- and then you stop and look around."' Yes, and then? Listen for fun, but learn too: leelee goro means "little girl" in the Temne language, and jambo is Swahili for "hello." And a "sloogey dog" is a Saluki...
...Finney), the Irishman who has run the town for years, and Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), the volatile, flirtatious Italian who is itching to seize control. Their bone of contention is Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro), a gambler too greedy to live long but too cunning to stay dead. His sister Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) has stolen Leo's heart and is ever ready to fence it. Nice crowd. Shuttling among them, wooed and wounded by them all, is Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), an existential hero with a black Irish soul. We spend most of the movie racing after Tom's mind...
...part, American Brands (1986 net sales: $8.5 billion) was sued on grounds similar to those in the Palmer case by Verna Stephen, a Pensacola, Fla., resident. Her husband Andrew died in 1984 of pulmonary heart disease and cancer at age 64, after smoking Pall Malls for 54 years. Before the case could get under way, a U.S. district judge ruled on a pretrial motion that American Brands could argue that it is not liable under state consumer laws. On appeal, the Atlanta court upheld that ruling...
...Verna L. Williams, a second-year law student and president of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), said she wrote a letter to Sarraille saying that she opposed the referendum and encouraged all members of BLSA to vote against...
...research; he also gets the enthusiastic sexual attention of Roger's wife. The cuckolded professor, who possesses an odd, out-of-body ability to witness and describe the trysts between Esther and Dale, takes this infidelity and betrayal calmly. For Roger's interest has been captured by his niece Verna, a friend of Dale's, who is the abandoned and unwed mother of a half-black infant and who lives in a housing project not far from Roger's home. Although he does not want to claim responsibility for this distant and disgraced relative, the professor is attracted...