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ARRESTED. LAWRENCE MICHAEL LOMBARDI, 41, unemployed white father of two, suspected in two recent bombings at the predominantly black Florida A&M University; on a bomb-manufacturing charge; in Tallahassee...
MacDonald, 33, grew up and still lives in South Boston, a legendary ethnic enclave that contains one of the country's highest concentrations of white poverty. The distinction is not appreciated by Southie residents, who bristle at being lumped with the black and Hispanic underclass...
MacDonald gives new life to this old American story of poor-white pride and prejudice. He also has a knack for quickly grabbing and holding a reader's attention. How's this for an opening line? "I was back in Southie, 'the best place in the world,' as Ma used to say before the kids died...
...like "Eat me Mister Dicky-weed!" becoming a detective is probably not the most obvious career move. Case in point: Lionel Essrog, a Brooklyn P.I. who can't shoot a gun but can spend the better part of a stakeout obsessing over the numerical integrity of his meal (six White Castle burgers at 6:45). He's got Tourette's syndrome and--by the end of the first chapter of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday; 311 pages; $23.95)--a dead boss on his hands...
DIED. DONALD SANDERS, 69, G.O.P. staff lawyer for the Senate committee that investigated Watergate, who uncovered the existence of Nixon's White House tapes; of cancer; in Columbia, Mo. During a slow-going interview with Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield, a persistent Sanders asked if recording devices were ever used. "I wish you hadn't asked," Butterfield said...