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Franzen's literary heroes are the masters of the paranoid, postmodern novel--William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo--writers who spin huge plots full of manic undertakings and dense riffs on civilization and its discontents. The book he put aside to write The Corrections was cut from that cloth. "It had prisons, race relations, stock-market corrections," Franzen says. "The 'corrections' in the finished book are more personal." The social disorders of the 21st century are expressed mostly through the personal distempers of the three siblings and their flight to the false consolations of sex, careerism and consumerism. "They...
Speaking of a "narrow escape" and a "nifty loophole," Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy were able to write of the wisdom of Bush's decision without ever admitting that Bush was wise. (THE REV.) PAUL PORTER, PASTOR Van Meter Baptist Church Van Meter, Iowa...
Powell: There may be some nuanced difference. But within a range, we usually come into agreement. I am what I am. If that sometimes puts me at odds with others, then, well, fine, and people can write about...
...romance between drug companies and doctors has been going on for a long time. Drugmakers ply doctors with gifts, and doctors, say the watchdogs, write pads of prescriptions in return. Now the A.M.A. (with the support of the drug companies) is planning an ad campaign to remind physicians what they can and can't accept...
...This time no one needed to run. There was no reported violence all day?people came calmly to vote for the 88-member constituent assembly that will write the nation's constitution and prepare the path to full independence. Some walked for hours from their villages. Women dressed as if for church, in traditional skirts and formal satin tops. Men crouched in groups, smoking and talking. Tiny girls in party dresses shaded themselves under umbrellas. Among them were those who, despite a concerted civic-education effort by the United Nations and aid agencies, don't yet fully understand...