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...Charity, whose thesis was a collection of short stories, this meant searching for inspiration in the precise daily records that her mother and her grandmother had kept since their youths, as well as pillaging the personal lives of her nearest and dearest. “My friends’ lives are fair game,” she grinned, leaning forward and shaking a lock of sun-streaked hair from her face. Meeting weekly with her thesis advisor, novelist Suzanne Berne, Charity said she discovered “how hard it is to write good fiction—even just readable...
...defending Japan champion Tokyo Giants of the Central League, Japan's oldest and winningest team, are owned by the nation's leading daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. They draw capacity crowds wherever they play, including 3 million fans a year at home. That's comfortably ahead of their nearest competitor, the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks, owned by a supermarket chain. But many of the other teams, particularly in the Pacific League, play to sparse crowds and operate at an annual loss, using the red ink as an advertising tax write...
...party of President Milo Djukanovic, a former ally of Slobodan Milosevic who broke with the strongman in 1997, against a pro-Yugoslav opposition with close ties to the democratic leadership in Belgrade. If Djukanovic wins - and polls currently give his coalition 44% of the vote vs. 26% for his nearest rivals - he has vowed to hold a referendum on independence from Serbia as early as June. Various polls peg support for independence at between 47% and 58%, and that is likely to grow once a secessionist campaign begins. Djukanovic, 39, enjoys considerable personal authority, and his government controls much...
Whether you are looking for a teacher in your neighborhood or a place to take classes when you are on the road, the best way to find the yoga center nearest you is to go online. Here are some particularly useful websites...
...Several sharp-eyed readers questioned the oddly numbered SAT scores of some of the famous folks we listed (Ben Stein, 1573; George W. Bush, 1206; Al Gore, 1335), noting that SAT numbers today are rounded off to the nearest 10. The College Board began to round off test scores only...