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...sibling relationship of D.B. (who asked that her name not be used) won't ever be confused with a greeting card. As a child, she looked up to her brother, 3 1/2 years older. After his marriage broke up, though, D.B. didn't like the way he treated his ex-wife. Well after the two divorced, he abandoned their original settlement agreement, demanding half the house and full custody of their daughter. D.B. saw his demands as unfair--and didn't think much of his parenting skills. "I just felt he was such a pig," she says. So she stopped...
...KEDCOMPANY.COM Eve.com Pets.com Garden.com--this was the year their bright and shiny dotcom promises turned to bitter ashes. This website with its unprintable name that suggests an unseemly demise has become essential reading for its gleeful tracking of the Internet industry's dot bombs, layoff by layoff...
...this year as the thin edge of the e-publishing wedge, the moment when books made of paper and ink began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers...
Spillane is not at all fazed by the fact that nobody has seen Enos' face or knows his name. In fact, she seems to think it's a plus. "It hit me that this is the most famous truck driver since the O.J. Simpson case but no one in the media ever mentioned him," she says. Knowing how society values the truck driver du jour, Spillane called Good Morning America, Rosie O'Donnell and Regis Philbin. She also called Ryder about getting Enos on some TV spots. She hasn't heard back from them yet, so she's calling some...
What Enos doesn't understand is that we've reached the point where you can be famous not only if you didn't do anything but even if no one knows your name or face. So if you were one of those people waving at the truck, I'd suggest putting in a call to Spillane right...