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DeLellis, who was treated promptly for her fever, says the care is somewhat random because her twin sister, Susan, went to UHS the next day with similar symptoms and was told nothing was wrong with...
...describes how he faced down a moralizing junior, then recalls that his wife asked, "Did you have to do your Bugsy Siegel routine?" The wife, a no-longer-loyal corporate helpmeet, recounts warning other corporate wives of what they may face on duty abroad -- a child murdered in a random robbery, a marriage ruined by loneliness, a spouse corrupted by the demands of the bottom line. The husband, alone and adrift in a forced retirement brought on by his wife's untimely candor, muses on what he lost and why he ever wanted it in the first place...
...B.C.C.I. affair, about which you have read much in these pages, is now given full exposure in a riveting book, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of B.C.C.I. (Random House), by investigative reporter Jonathan Beaty and senior editor S.C. Gwynne, who were among the first journalists to seize on the serpentine elements of this global scandal. After writing nearly a score of penetrating TIME articles, Beaty and Gwynne took a six-month leave of absence and, working from 750 lbs. of documents and notes, transformed a forbiddingly complex news story into a dramatic account...
Ericson also said that while he was not "terribly happy," he realized that the process was "totally random" and not something to be angry about...
...first novel. The same River Twice. Chris Offutt Plungers directly into the sophisticate realm of high fiction. Directly, that is, if you discount his only other published work, Kentucky Straight. In that collection of short fiction. Offutt shamelessly sold out his Kentucky heritage to Random. House. After slogging through the nine stories in the Paw-dun-hung-himself-with-his-belt vein. I was dreading the two hundred pages of memoir that make up. The Same River Twice. But Offutt has tired of Flogging the dead horse of his homeland, and has produced as intelligent and enthralling account...