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...celebrity no- shows, the Great Peace March took a wobble last month at Mile 120, in the Mojave Desert. Its chief sponsor collapsed in bankruptcy. But several hundred survivors declared themselves ready to carry on as soon as they could get essential supplies, including, says Spokeswoman Lisa Bell, throat lozenges, cough syrup, herbal teas, vitamins and honey-dried fruits. Eastward...
...Santa Barbara, was accused (along with a pal, who will be tried later) of the knife murder of a homeless man whom they found sleeping in a park one night last August. The schoolmates are charged with stabbing Michael Stephenson, an unemployed house painter, 17 times, then slashing his throat. It was the second murder of a homeless person in Santa Barbara in nine months. Kurtzman admitted the killing, but defended himself by explaining that he had been looking for gang members who had harassed some fellow students. At week's end the jury had not reached a decision...
Eventually, Nero's armies revolted and the Senate condemned him to be flogged to death with rods. He decided to resign from office by stabbing himself in the throat. At least suicide spared him the fate of some other toppled rulers -- the long twilight of exile, the sort of haunted afterlife endured by Napoleon, say, or the wandering Shah of Iran. Exile is not necessarily a fate worse than death, but there is something poignantly ignominious in the spectacle of the once all-powerful turned out to graze on their memories, their paranoid retrospections, in obscure pastures...
After a good five minutes spent wrestling with a microphone and clearing his throat, he shattered my hope that appearances can be deceiving: "Hmmmmnughagggh...In the course of 20th century...uhm...literature, the contribution of the...uhm...Shriner poets should not be...uhm...overlooked...uhm..." As he continued, droning on endlessly in the same monotone, I began to feel that another voice was speaking through him, perhaps that of a long-deceased carrot...
...successful storytellers and hamburger makers know: the public likes consistency. A Ludlum novel reads like a Ludlum novel, just as a Big Mac tastes like a Big Mac. The Bourne Supremacy is doubly familiar. The hairy-chested prose ("No man was a match for him; no eyes, no throat, no groin safe from an assault, swift and agonizing") and the conspiratorial plotting are stock Ludlum. So is the hero, Jason Bourne. Readers of The Bourne Identity (1980) will recognize him as the cover name for David Webb, the American Orientalist who was used to lure Carlos, the international terrorist known...