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...school one day last January, drove to a parking lot and shot herself in the head. Although a riverboat spokesman said he had no record of her visits, friends told the local press that the 40-year-old woman gambled frequently at the Casino Queen. The day she died sheriff's deputies were on their way to her home with an eviction order. She left a note on the door explaining that her husband, a refinery worker, knew nothing of their financial problems, although she had pawned their wedding rings and skipped making the house payments for 17 months...
Against such pessimism,the Dole high command presses on. "But most of us," says Walter Morse, "have been too busy with our real jobs to do much." Morse is more than a bit player. He is the sheriff of Hillsborough, New Hampshire's most populous county. "The sheriffs are key," Dole told me last summer. "They're the major grass-roots force in the state." Unfortunately for Dole, the other sheriffs echo Morse. "We'll get the signs up," says Sheriff Wayne Vetter of Rockingham County. "But it's tough. Forbes should have peaked by now. He hasn...
...James Ellroy (Knopf). This big, brazenly entertaining novel begins in 1958 and ends seconds before the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. In between, James Ellroy--a crime-noir cult writer making his mainstream debut--propels two rogue FBI agents and a former Los Angeles County deputy sheriff through a fictionalized, nightmarish tour of five tumultuous years in U.S. history. Life is seldom horrifying and hilarious at the same moment. On nearly all its 576 pages, American Tabloid manages to be both...
...m.p.h., which they can do for several hundred yards at a stretch. It's clear that what they're doing in this familiar sanctuary, known to the older birds from last year, is merely setting the limits of polite socializing. As Al Pfitzmayer, a retired sheriff from Nassau County, New York, puts it,"To watch a turkey come in and hear the chatter, it's like a beautiful symphony. You don't even need to shoot them...
...Andy's bedroom the toys are alive. They are also working stiffs with the fear, every time a birthday approaches, that they will be replaced by more sophisticated gewgaws. Toy Town's leader, a cloth cowboy named Sheriff Woody (wonderfully voiced by Tom Hanks), talks to his charges as if he's a genial teacher and they are slow kids. Actually, they're finicky adults. Rex (Wallace Shawn), a sexually insecure dinosaur, dreams of being "the dominant predator." Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) grumbles about planned obsolescence while praying that Andy's new prized toy will be Mrs. Potato Head...