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John Cheever's daughter takes a beating: Jonathan Yardley says Susan Cheever's memoir of her struggles with alcohol is "Grade B literary/journalistic opportunism-cum-sensationalism" (the Washington Post ). Alex Beam goes further in the Boston Globe , calling it a "despicable, wooden memoir."
In the streets directly below the castle walls, you may well hear the sounds of craftsmen beating copper — from whom you can buy direct.
No sitting president would have taken such a beating on a foreign-policy front without having lost all political credibility to the extent that Bill Clinton did after being impeached.
In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Sunday that one of the three workers responsible for the country's worst ever nuclear accident, which took place this Sept. 30, has been in critical condition since his heart temporarily stopped beating last Saturday.
The heroes are Coach Bill Parcells, who lifted the team from 1-15 record two years ago to 12-4 this year (beating his former team, the New England Patriots, twice this year), and quarterback Vinny Testaverde, who staged one of football's greatest individual comebacks by winning 12 of 13 games he started, passing for a Jets-record 29 touchdowns and leading the conference in passing.