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...California's pensioners got out unhurt. In what Connell says was a normal rotation of funds, CalPERS eventually liquidated its eventual $175.5 million investment in Jedi II in 2000 and received $171 million as of Oct. 31, 2001 - "a wash," according to spokeswoman Pat Macht. (The deal was actually tougher on Enron - CalPERS' exit forced the company to cover the funds by setting up the flawed Chewco partnership that would eventually start Enron's financial dominoes falling.) By then, says Connell, "We were just happy to get our money...
...said he worries about repeating himself, which seems inevitable, since he's published at least a book a year since 1974. He plans to finish the last three novels in his "Dark Tower" series and this fall publish From a Buick Eight, about a car he describes as "not normal." Chances are it will be abnormal in ways different from Christine, but at least we'll probably be spared a novel about children who worship sweet potatoes...
Hughes' story is remarkable for the way in which she has refused to surrender a normal upbringing for skating. At a time when families think nothing of packing up their skating prodigy and relocating near an elite coach (as did the Yamaguchis and Lipinskis), Hughes and her parents have always made school, not skating, the priority. Even as her abilities on the ice gained national prominence, Hughes continued to be part of the swirl of everyday life with her five brothers and sisters and remained rooted to her home and family in the New York City suburb of Great Neck...
...prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight on, the image presented is the traditional positive, but as perspective shifts, the negative appears—in this manner, simultaneously occupying the normal and reverse of photographs, the singular uniqueness of daguerreotypes becomes wonderfully apparent...
...cheat. This belief reflects Ford’s his strong opinion that humans are inherently alone in the world and in their thoughts and that marriage is a futile attempt at looking through another’s eyes. His second-favored cause of infidelity is simply boredom with the normal American middle-class lifestyle. Infidelity for many of his characters becomes a means of distinguishing themselves from their less adventurous peers...