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...HOUSE (SIMON & Schuster; 287 pages; $22), Stephen McCauley's third novel, a friend tells Clyde, the narrator, "No one cares about novels anymore. No one wants to wade through the obfuscations of fiction. Just pump out all the filthy facts, toss in a chapter on rehab and wrap...
Thank heaven no one has let McCauley's publisher in on this nearly accurate bit of cynicism. There aren't any filthy facts here, no trite wrap-ups--just funny, sustaining fiction. The only resemblance between McCauley's writing and rehab is that you can just check in. Such are the author's fluency and humor ("Nothing is more intimate than the right kind of insult") that the reader can ramble along, smelling the roses...
...second came with only 38 ticks left on the period's clock on a wrap-around shot by Mleczko again over MacLiver's right shoulder...
With crucial league games against Columbia and Cornell this week, Harvard will need more of Gelman's tenacity to wrap up its season in Ivy-winning style...
...extraordinary, in fact, that in briefing Clinton in Washington last week, Admiral Leighton Smith, NATO's Bosnia commander, hinted at "moving people out of there" before the mission's scheduled wrap-up in December. But while Smith can claim success for the military side, the civilian operation is another story. The civilian accords are plagued by a lack of cash and endless Balkan bickering. This is disturbing because the accords cover elections, refugee resettlement and reconstruction--all of which are crucial to giving Bosnia a stable peace. "The civilian part of Dayton is the test of our success or failure...