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...center of much of the morning debate was the coverage of the alleged affair between President Clinton and former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky. While most panelists found the coverage irresponsible, they cited different reasons...
...remained a one-run contest until Harvardblew it open in the fifth with five runs on fivehits. Amberg started the affair with a lead-offdouble into the left centerfield gasp, and LaSovagefollowed with a slap-bunt single to short.Franzese's sacrifice bunt up the first-base lineadvanced the runners and brought Abeles to theplate...
...retired G.O.P. Congressman John Schmitz, had disclosed his terminal cancer. As Mary later told a psychiatrist, she felt he had died already. "She felt she died too," says Dr. Julie Tybor Moore. Her father has always been a rock, even during his own public whipping. In 1982, an extramarital affair was revealed when his mistress (a former college student of his) brought one of their two children to a hospital after the child was injured in an accident. The hospital requested the father's name, and Schmitz--a church-and-family conservative--then watched his political career wilt...
...next; for example, he spills the beans quickly that Marion will reappear in the story 37 years after it begins. But this information is strictly between author and reader; the characters, realistically enough, are left in the dark. As Ruth begins imagining her fourth novel, about an unhappy love affair, she hits on a rule that clearly guides her creator: "The reader should anticipate the boyfriend's awfulness, but the woman writer doesn't see it coming." Reading A Widow for One Year is largely a matter of watching characters walk or trip into unsuspected inevitabilities...
...guns, but you can't train them not to be children. Allowing emotionally immature children access to firearms is opening the door to incidents such as the one in Jonesboro as well as suicides and unintentional shootings. I urge all Americans to reconsider the U.S.'s love affair with guns in light of this senseless tragedy. SARAH BRADY, Chair Handgun Control, Inc. Washington