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...fiction and fantasy novels so far.A consistent theme of Scott’s novels is how society defines a person, who gets to set the definition, and how people shape their mental landscape.Fellow science-fiction writer and close friend Susanna J. Sturgis says, “Melissa manages to pull together an array of strong influences, some of them apparently contradictory, like military history, theater, costuming, music, not to mention being an Arkansan in New England, a lesbian in a straight world, a science-fiction writer in the gay and lesbian world.”Scott says she draws inspiration...
...vicinity.) We must have worn his shoulder out, demanding ever higher pop-flies to field and harder ground balls to retrieve as the sunlight slowly disappeared, hours after we’d first left the house.Somehow we made do indoors. Two nights before a game he’d pull out his yellow legal pad and we’d go to work drawing up our plan of attack. Giddy with anticipation, I’d invariably have drawn up my own lineup hours in advance during soccer season. Our league held four-quarter games, and every player...
...history of mankind,” and dinner later that evening, Jack and the future Mrs. Welch realized their relationship was a romantic one.The next day, she called her boss Walter Kiechel ’68, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publications, to tell him that he should pull the article she had written on Jack Welch. Four months later, she resigned.“I was fired,” she says now. “They would tell you I resigned. Whatever, I left.” “When you look back...
...takes a specific kind of talent to pull off this type of performance, and it took Black almost two decades to figure out how to harness his talent successfully. "I first met him when he was 12," says Tim Robbins, who, as the co-founder of the Los Angeles theater troupe the Actors' Gang, gave Black a role in the play Inside Eddie Binstock. "After that, he just kept coming back and hanging out." Black's parents, divorced rocket scientists, encouraged their son's artistic hanging out, and as Black matured and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles...
...self-esteem. Research on family meals does not explore whether it makes a difference if dinner is with two parents or one or even whether the meal needs to be dinner. For families whose schedules make evenings together a challenge, breakfast or lunch may have the same value. So pull up some chairs. Lose the TV. Let the phone go unanswered. And see where the moment takes...