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...restaurant, which used to attract such luminaries as former Harvard president Derek C. Bok and John F. Kennedy '40, had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter...
Candidates find him odd but endearing--he tells them they can win, knows all about their state, cites chapter and verse on their careers. Roemer calls him "the weirdest guy I ever met in politics"--and Roemer is friends with another eccentric, Clinton's strategist, James Carville. "A wild man, yelling and screaming, all over your back. I said, 'Give that man a machete! I want him on my side.'" But sometimes candidates wonder whose interests come first with Morris. Roemer's campaign against the scandal-plagued Edwards was based on Roemer's pledge to reject all PAC money...
...Another chapter is hurtling toward what its author hopes will be a breathtaking close. Storm clouds are gathering, foreshadows lengthening. You are firmly in the grip of what the book jacket avers is "Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror." Your eye skips to the bottom of the page, and this is what you read...
...unblock? King, who works virtually nonstop, regularly churning out two and sometimes three books a year, provides a clue about how he is able to manage such a forest-clearing output. In his introduction to the first volume of The Green Mile, he writes, "Most of the second chapter was written during a rain delay at Fenway Park!" Throw in a couple of pitching changes for revisions, and Anne Rice had better start watching her back on the hardcover best-seller list...
Their arrival brings closure to a difficult chapter in the life of Shannon Faulkner, who, after holding a number of jobs in the last year, plans to return to school. This fall she will enter Furman University, in Greenville, South Carolina, as a junior English major. And while she still gets stares in public, she also gets accolades. Recently, while she was attending a baseball game near her hometown of Powdersville, South Carolina, some little girls approached her and asked, "Are you Shannon?" When she nodded yes, they squealed, "We want to be like you!" Thanks to Faulkner's Pyrrhic...