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...Many readers saw striking resemblances in Ruven Afanador's stark cover photograph of Johnny Cash. "That magnificent face had the appearance of one of America's Founding Fathers or a pioneer who pushed westward over the Appalachian Mountains," wrote a Floridian. Asked a woman from New Jersey: "Was that a picture of Cash or of another musical icon, Ludwig van Beethoven?" And a Rhode Islander offered her thanks "for the wonderful cover portrait of Cash. It is as beautiful as a Rembrandt etching and as welcome as a snapshot from a friend...
...cause of all this carnage is gaijin hubris?the belief, embraced by foolish foreigners, that one can get away with anything in Japan. Jessica Romano, a blond-bombshell nightclub hostess from Chicago, and Chris Ryan, a Floridian slacker and small-time drug pusher, have a particularly bad case. And who can blame them? Jessica spends her nights tending to infantile businessmen at a posh, Osaka club. Chris, a nobody back home, finds himself treated in Japan "like he was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt"?after two months he has already bedded a dozen girls. So when Jessica hatches a scheme...
...Lots of grownups were eager to let us know that they love Harry Potter as much as kids do. "My college fraternity brothers made fun of me until I persuaded them to read the first book," wrote a Floridian. "Guess what? They were all addicted immediately." Sharing the Pottermania were two friends from Nebraska, "both well over 50 and great H.P. fans." They proudly declared that they drove "100-plus miles to a bookstore in Rapid City, S.D., for the 12:01 a.m. release of Book 5." And an Arizona man wrote, "If everyone under 18 were to disappear from...
...really liked the rain because I don’t see much of this at home,” said Floridian John Voith. “I also met and liked a lot of nice kids, and I like Harvard students because they walk really fast...
...bulldog,” “tough,” “intimidating”—in short, everything you would expect to hear about a former quarterback. But talk to him in person, and you will see a different creature, a calm, laidback Floridian, the epitome of self-mastery...