Staten Island BP Candidates Oddo, Liedy Take Advance Reader Questions on

Staten Island BP candidates Oddo, Liedy take Advance reader questions on
Oddo said that the post was a "personality-driven job" and that he wanted to infuse the office with his own personality. He said he didn't want to be an insular borough president, and would reach out in the style of … Thomas O'Gara wanted to know …
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Eleanor Catton asks novel questions with epic ambition in The Luminaries
There are drug dealers and prospectors, prostitutes and con artists, secrets and plots galore: the book is sprinkled with gold dust and soaked in opium. … What are the consolations of fiction, and where do we find meaning: in personality or pattern …
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John Ward jailed for life for Big Issue seller murders
Heroin addict Ward had met the pair, both fellow drug-users, for the first time a few hours before after getting off a train from London. Ward, originally from Ireland and at the time an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic with a dissocial personality …
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