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Robert Stone's fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years. A sixth is scheduled to arrive in bookstores this fall, but the wait should be soothed by Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short stories that have appeared in magazines plus a previously unpublished novella that gives the new volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone's novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget...
...Stone's stories is in fact called Absence of Mercy; nearly all his people believe themselves cut off from any possible solace and forgiveness. The novella Bear and His Daughter portrays the explosive meeting of two such lost souls: a drunken poet on a reading tour in the Mountain States and his illegitimate daughter, who is now 31 and a park ranger packing a pistol. Her boyfriend, fearing what may come of the father's visit, tells her, "I hope God helps you. You should...
...YORK: After a fifth straight day on the slippery slope, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stands at 6,477.35, down 8.6 percent from its 7,085.16 high of March 11. It's not a bear market yet. But it doesn't look good. "I think we're in trouble," says TIME's Daniel Kadlec. "Usually during a downturn, people are tempted to buy, but this time they're afraid to step up." Right now, the reason for that fear is Friday's employment report. An unexpectedly high number, enough to spur Alan Greenspan to raise interest rates again, could send...
...investors, the skinny remains: don't panic. Good news is still good news, and the economy, after all, is strong. But as snow fell Monday on downtown New York, the traders in Wall Street s vaulted warrens continued to usher March out like a polar bear...
...settlement make the rounds last week than the rest of the tobacco industry raced into the North Carolina court to keep Liggett's papers under wraps. The cigarette makers claim that the documents are protected by the industry's joint defense privilege on attorney-client communications because they bear on Liggett's dealings with the other companies. However, a few files have already been distributed, and other documents are likely to leak out. "It's very hard to say 'attorney-client privilege' when half the world will be seeing them," says Henry Miller, a past president of the New York...