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Probably the hardest kind of crime novel to write is the exploration of the criminal mind from within, the stream of psychotic consciousness brought to its peak in past years by Julian Symons (The Players and the Game) and Ruth Rendell (Live Flesh). That sort of book has been attempted unsuccessfully this season by Robert B. Parker, whose uninsightful Crimson Joy (Delacorte; 211 pages; $16.95) suggests that he would do better to return to slam-bang action. Symons and Rendell, meanwhile, are represented by more conventional fare resurrecting characters from some of their earlier novels...
Four separate conferences are in the works as part of the "Women in the 21st Century" series, said Sandy Lee '89, who is helping to plan the conference. The first gathering--slated for December 1 to 3--has been organized already, and four women have agreed to write specially commissioned papers which will serve as the focal points of the conference, Lee said...
...Things have really gotten going since we got the money in June," Lee said. "We have made a master list of people to write specific papers for discussions--these include a variety of activists, policymakers and academics...
...added that there will be three othercategories of discussion at the Decemberconference: Economic Issues, Legal andConstitutional Limits and New FeministScholarship. Alice Rivlin, who was a fellow at theInstitute of Politics last spring and was directorof the Congressional Budget Office, will write apaper on the economic issues women face...
...African National Congress was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the government. Since undergoing a prostate operation in November 1985, he has been held in Pollsmoor's hospital wing. Each year he is allowed 30 visits of 40 minutes ; apiece, and he may write and accept one letter a week. Although his wife Winnie collected 50,000 greetings on his behalf last week, Mandela received his limit of twelve birthday cards...