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In a brilliant novel published last year, The Puttermesser Papers , her eponymous heroine, Ruth Puttermesser, becomes mayor of New York City and embraces a Whitmanesque vision of urban harmony--Jews and Christians and everyone together--before being undone by a rapacious golem.
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At the very least it is by no means clear that Indonesia will soon be able to rid itself of its unaccountable generals, rapacious investors, massive foreign debts, or the political impoverishment that could well be Suharto's most lasting legacy.
A reporter chronicles the rapacious and mistaken prosecution of a 7-year-old and an 8-year-old for murder in Chicago.
Like the Democrats, the Braves are as rapacious as their rivals, but subtler.