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...homes--not unlike the crime-scene diagrams sketched by BTK and sent to the media. "His attention to detail was flawless," says ADT co-worker Mike Tavares. "Anyone who didn't know a thing about it could have installed the entire thing." But his strict adherence to the thick binder of company rules known as the "blue pages"--and his expectation that everyone would do the same--rankled some colleagues. Rader left ADT in 1989 after clashing with a manager who had a more flexible philosophy...
When Sylvia Plath killed herself early on the morning of Feb. 11, 1963, she left behind two children, an estranged, adulterous husband, a note for the baby sitter and a neat black binder containing 40 poems. The contents of that binder would become Ariel, one of the most devastatingly moving and universally beloved books of poetry published in the 20th century. But the contents of that binder and what we know as Ariel are not quite the same thing...
...years after Plath's death, we have been given back the binder that was on her desk. Ariel: The Restored Edition (HarperCollins; 211 pages) prints the poems Plath chose for her book and in the order in which she gave them--the director's cut, as it were. It also includes a foreword by Frieda Hughes, the couple's daughter. Amazingly, before work began on the restored edition, Hughes, who is also a poet, had never read her mother's masterpiece. "Sometimes we have to wait until we're the right age for something," says Hughes, 44, who lives...
...working mothers, however, do not inspire the kind of admiration that has had not one but two filmmakers write roles specifically for them. In 2000, newbie director Rod Lurie wrote The Contender for Allen. She got to become Vice President in that film. She also got to know Mike Binder (he played her communications director), who wrote a romance for her, The Upside of Anger, due out in December. Her love interest is Kevin Costner, who at 49 is only two years her senior. It's almost inappropriate...
...thesis was basically laughed out of its binder holdings by the professors who were grading,” he says now. “They very politely allowed me to graduate with honors...