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Results from the random sample of 1,008 adults have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points...
Some people are born into fame, others attain it, and still others are picked out almost at random by DAVID LETTERMAN. When DICK ASSMAN sold his Saskatchewan gas station and went to work for the one across the street, it was noted in a modest ad in the local paper. Somehow, the ad--and Assman's snicker-inducing name--was brought to Letterman's attention. An appearance on the Late Show ensued--as did an agent, some commercials, a couple of marriage proposals and a name-recognition factor in Canada of 49%, according to a local polling concern, which means...
...unlikely matchup. But with Schlichtmann's cooperation, Harr has turned a sprawling, complex liability case into a suspenseful narrative full of intellectual surprises and bold-faced characters. Based on Harr's fly-on-the-wall reporting, A Civil Action (Random House; 500 pages; $25) chronicles a lawsuit brought in 1986 by eight families in Woburn, Massachusetts, against Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace. The plaintiffs charged that toxic waste on properties owned by the giant corporations had infiltrated town drinking water and caused an outbreak of leukemia...
...teenager; becomes known; acquires hangers-on, women, a car; kills more people; is jailed; gets out; kills; is shot. As Irish writer Eoin McNamee, 33, imagines the progression in Resurrection Man (Picador USA; 233 pages; $21), his terse, forceful first novel, it is not the fact of random murders, which of course are normal, that makes the city uneasy and somehow complicit. It is the gaudiness of the knifework, the unseemly calling of attention, that feels wrong. As the killings continue, the language of official statements quoted in news reports slides instinctively toward euphemism. People speak in ambiguities. Belfast does...
...worked at Harvard. Tom asked if I was interested in a job as the university's director of financial programs," Powell writes on page 273 of the book, which is number one on several national bestseller lists and is the fastest selling book in the history of its publisher, Random House...