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Bandits is its own best plot summary. Part of Leonard's consummate narrative skill is his ability to camouflage complicated exposition as casual chatter. Thus it seems only natural that Jack Delaney, 40, a former jewel thief who has done time at a Louisiana penitentiary, should wind up working at the New Orleans mortuary owned by his brother-in-law Leo. Why is it, Leo wonders aloud, that every time they get a call to collect a corpse from the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Jack calls in sick? Is he afraid of leprosy or what? The next...
...fine, except for a White House mess of the moment (you | don't want to know about it), and a grinning Wall Street thief who was fined $100 million (real money these days), and a touch of the flu. Have you heard of the flu? In late December 1986 the nation half skips, half drags itself toward Christmas. We trust that your Christmases are the same. Or have you licked the season too? Have you solved everything? This letter will be propped up in a capsule at the Statue of Liberty, to be opened on the statue's bicentennial...
...Myers are a little merrier about security this holiday season. Eleven police officers in Santa suits, complete with white beards, candy canes and hidden firearms, are patrolling the town's stores, keeping an eye out for grinches who would steal Christmas goodies. Already one Santa cop has nabbed a thief carrying off more than $1,000 in merchandise...
...voter ratings of over 50 percent for both. Kasten, who had two drunk driving convictions during in his first six years in Washington, narrowly edged Garvey, who was accused falsely by Kasten of embezzling $750,000 from the National Football Players Association. Apparently voters prefer a drunk to a thief...
...scenario on the cover of a recent issue of The New Republic might be better understood if someone asked the following question: what if the young Black man at the door of the jewelry store was not a thief? Well, then he, like most Blacks who would have been in such a situation, probably was somebody with the means to make purchases at a jewelry store and not likely to be a food stamps-carrying member of the urban underclass...