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...twelve months out of twelve in the real world. The narrator meets a renowned Indian healer named Rolling Thunder, and nothing happens; then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist at a VA hospital. The author's sound instinct is to play against the dramatic. There is no resolution of the brother's predicament...
...biggest corporate brawl in history could be nearing an end. Thanks in part to the negotiating skills of TWA Chairman Carl Icahn, a settlement may be at hand in the epic legal battle between Texaco and Pennzoil. Since 1985 Texaco has been appealing a court order to pay Pennzoil $10.5 billion in damages as a result of a merger dispute. In April, Texaco filed for bankruptcy protection. Enter Icahn, who three weeks ago became Texaco's largest stockholder by boosting TWA's holdings to 12.3%. Icahn helped forge a deal between Pennzoil and a committee representing Texaco's shareholders...
After the bruising battles that led to the rejection of Robert Bork and the unexpected withdrawal of Douglas Ginsburg, few liberals or conservatives were in any mood for another knockdown brawl. And, at least at first glance, one seems unlikely. No one could find anything in either Kennedy's Norman Rockwell personal background or his twelve-year record on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento that would prevent him from being confirmed as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice, and potentially a long-serving one. At 51, Kennedy is young enough to be shaping court decisions well...
Student Injured After Falling From Window in Drunken Brawl...
...student was injured last Saturday after he was pushed from a second-story window in a drunken brawl...