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City Councillor James A. Sheets won the Quincy mayor's post while the mayor of Newburyport lost to his predecessor and Salem's top executive was ousted. Mayors in Lawrence, Holyoke, Fitchburg, Fall River and Gloucester held onto their posts...
From this spooky, arresting premise, Umberto Eco has launched a novel that is even more intricate and absorbing than his international best seller The Name of the Rose (1983). Unlike its predecessor, Foucault's Pendulum does not restrict its range of interests to monastic, medieval arcana. This time Eco's framework is vast -- capacious enough to embrace reams of ancient, abstruse writings and a host of contemporary references or allusions. The latter include the Yellow Submarine, Casablanca, Tom and Jerry, Lina Wertmuller, Barbara Cartland, Stephen King, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flash Gordon, the Pink Panther, Minnie Mouse...
...Nixon was so habitual a deceiver that in 1962, 48 hours after saying defeat would at least restore his family life, he left for the Bahamas without his wife and daughters. Fact: during 1968 he artfully cultivated Lyndon Johnson's goodwill for his own benefit and later repaid his predecessor with small kindnesses. Fact: Viet Nam and other realities he inherited on Inauguration Day forced him to choke his own genuine hawkishness and preside over the retreat of American power...
That was a major departure from the contention of his 77-year-old predecessor, Erich Honecker, that no changes were necessary in East Germany's orthodox regime. Krenz replaced Honecker, his mentor, as Communist Party chief October...
When State President F.W. de Klerk speaks of his vision of a new South Africa, the country's voteless 26 million blacks can be forgiven for being skeptical. The reform policies of De Klerk's predecessor, P.W. Botha, unleashed disappointment and nearly three years of violent unrest before grinding to a halt. But one of the most vocal critics of De Klerk's reluctance to abolish apartheid is a prominent Afrikaner who sat only a few feet behind him on inauguration day last month: his elder brother Willem...