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Years after Kate Lewis is kidnaped, Stephen, a successful children's book writer, recalls the instant and thinks he was vaguely aware of a figure in a dark coat, "the weakest suspicion brought to life by a desperate memory." The ache of Kate's loss is sustained throughout the book. She never returns...
...despot's power. The American air raid on Libya is the model. Its military significance was minimal. Its psychological significance was enormous. Gaddafi has since been in retreat. And not just on the terrorism front. Within a year, his demoralized forces were routed and expelled from Chad, perhaps the weakest state in Central Africa...
...others say Bok's weakest flank may in fact be his strongest...
...horrendous plight of the thrift institutions -- or rather of the one-quarter or so of the industry that is foundering by normal accounting standards. Last year the profits of all U.S. thrifts totaled $895 million, down from $3.85 billion in 1985. A year ago the 370 or so weakest institutions were hemorrhaging at the rate of $2.2 billion a year. Now those losses are running closer to an estimated $3.8 billion annually...
...weakest parts of the collection are diffused by sociology and demographic shorthand: a smoothly flowing resume substituting for characterization; the itemized contents of a lost wallet, including credit cards, club memberships and photographs, heavily making the point that the seat of the owner's identity is his hip pocket. A story that begins "Though I was between marriages for several years, in a disarray that preoccupied me completely, other people continued to live and to die" sends the eye skidding down the page in search of traction...