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DANIEL A. BROWN Leyden, Mass...
...BATTERY Franklin also discovered the difference between conductors and insulators of electricity. He used a device called a Leyden jar to hold and discharge electricity-even using some to kill a turkey for a feast. Wiring together charged plates, and later jars, he created and named an electrical battery...
...girlfriend's house and later bring on the death of her father. (Don't blame him for the Brooke Shields movie.) For A Ship Made of Paper, his eighth novel, Spencer worked with different characters but similar desperations. Daniel is a New York City lawyer who flees back to Leyden, his childhood home on the Hudson River north of the city. It's a place on the literary map somewhere between Cheeverville and Updike Corners, where adultery is in the air like chimney smoke. Daniel brings with him his girlfriend Kate, a writer who has acid intelligence, a 4-year...
...Simpson is on every TV. What Daniel and Iris now stand to lose are the lives they have constructed to protect themselves from that world. Daniel and Kate have "a levelheaded alliance." She thinks of them as "Swiss bankers of the heart." But after three years in placid Leyden, she has a full inventory of wifely complaints. ("His smile can grate on her as if it were a cough.") And Daniel wants the rapture he finds with Iris. "He is like a man who suddenly discovers he can sing," Spencer tells us, "who one day opens his mouth...
...website and an Internet radio station, Resistance Radio. Whatever the music's propaganda value, hate-group monitors believe Resistance may be bringing in more than $1.5 million in annual revenues, perhaps three times as much as when Pierce bought it. "He's making money hand over fist," says TJ Leyden, a onetime hate-rock promoter who today consults for the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Task Force Against Hate. The Wiesenthal Center believes Resistance is a major funding source for the National Alliance...