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BOOMSDAY By Christopher Buckley Twelve. 318 pp. $24.99 Does government-sanctioned suicide offer the same potential for satire as, say, the consumption of children? Possibly. One need only look to Kurt Vonnegut's story "Welcome to the Monkey House," with its "Federal Ethical Suicide Parlors" staff...
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