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...this point I don't care who won the elections. I am glad that I don't have to listen to all the commercials on the radio and television anymore. Now if the people who put up all the campaign signs in front of their houses and along the roadway would take them down, the nation would be prettier. If the candidates put all the money spent on the campaign toward the national debt, the nation would be well on its way to being debt free. JOANNA REAGAN Pepperell, Massachusetts...
...Glad, he thinks, to be rid of his strict mother and living a largely undisciplined life with his feckless father, Ellroy grows addicted to crime stories: "Every book I read was a twisted homage to her. Every mystery solved was my love for her in ellipses." When his father dies, the still underage son goes into a long tailspin: alcohol, drugs, sleeping in public parks, petty burglaries, time in county jails. Miraculously, he rights himself and becomes a published writer. "I was hot to ascend," he says. "Ascension meant two things. I had to write a great crime novel...
...distribution process last week to make funding more available to student organizations. The changes result in large part from an initiative by President Robert M. Hyman '98 to increase the percentage of council funding given to student groups by three percent of its $177,000 yearly budget. We are glad that Hyman followed through on this campaign promise, and we hope that the percentage of funds given to student groups continues to increase...
When there were no hands left to shake along the rope line, Clinton glad-handed the police and anyone else he could find, almost reeling, staggering backward, to find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
...glad I was included, but I can't be overly happy that I am," he said...