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...lesser offices too we apply the standards of a warrior culture. Female candidates are routinely advised to overcome the handicap of their gender by talking "tough." Thus, for example, Dianne Feinstein has embraced capital punishment, while Colorado senatorial candidate Josie Heath has found it necessary to announce that although she is the mother of an 18-year-old son, she is prepared to vote for war. Male candidates in some of the fall contests are finding their military records under scrutiny. No one expects them, as elected officials in a civilian government, to pick up a spear or a sling...
Thernstrom, in the story she tells, loses not only a friend, but her notions of justice and retribution. Page eventually beats the murder charge, and is convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter, free on bail. He still awaits the results of an appeal, while Thernstrom awaits the arrival of a lost friend in her dreams...
Better still, Kirn's stories live up to the promise of their intriguing come-ons, although in quirky, unpredictable ways. Tranquilizing the dog turns out to be one of the lesser problems facing the young narrator of My Hard Bargain. On the long drive from Wisconsin to Arizona, where he has been told a better life beckons, Wade begins to realize that his parents have not only pulled up stakes but are racing to leave each other as well. The gun that introduces The Steward never goes off. Instead the Midwestern farm boy called upon to protect his grandparents, mother...
...looks better than on TV," one woman tells another with approval. In real life he looks better than real. Cosmetic surgeons, employed in relays, have made him larger of chin, lesser of nose and chemically scrubbed of wrinkles, as if to erase an embarrassing past from his face as well as his record. Only rays of "laugh lines" going out from the side of his eyes are unnaturally deep, like a high school actor's heavy pencilings for an older part...
...censored; copies of this issue of TIME, for example, are certain to be banned from the kingdom. The Saudis enforce Islamic laws of justice to the letter. In the city squares, the hands of thieves are chopped off, adulterers are stoned to death, murderers and rapists are beheaded, and lesser offenders are flogged...