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...told his fellow Berkeley students to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass." Go, team! The Secret Service, however, didn't find those words so inspiring and instead bum-rushed Branum's dorm while they were in town for a Hillary Clinton speaking engagement. Agent Chris Van Holt showed up on campus to check Branum's medical records and search his room--and the spunky undergrad taped the entire proceeding. "I want to make sure you don't have any weapons or any of the stuff that you see on TV...like a big picture of Chelsea with...
...Tallahassee, Fla., Thad Busby threw for five TDs and a career-best 463 yards to offset five TD catches by the Wolfpack's Torry Holt...
...comes historian Linda Lear with Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt; 634 pages; $35), a probing and scrupulously footnoted account of this extraordinary woman's life. Carson was a publishing oxymoron--a prodigy who published her first essay in St. Nicholas Magazine at age 11, and a late bloomer who found success as a writer only in her 40s. Through letters and interviews Lear reconstructs an early life in which Carson had to defer dreams of becoming a scientist in order to help support her family following the failed schemes of an ineffectual father and tragedies that befell hapless...
...novel about Japanese monster movies and one dealing with the 18th century drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between the (then) colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Fragments of a Godzilla-like episode indeed appeared in Pynchon's Vineland (1990), and now here comes a real monster: Mason & Dixon (Henry Holt; 773 pages...
...BOOKS. . . MASON & DIXON: Although there are similarities of length and his trademark narrative rhythm, Thomas Pynchon?s new novel (Henry Holt; 773 pages; $27.50) is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor, 'Gravity's Rainbow.' This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who tells aloud the tale of his one-time acquaintances Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night...