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Convinced that my wife and I were finally comfortable with steering and docking procedures, Steve said goodbye, jumped into his powerboat and quickly disappeared. My stomach sank a little when he left--and at least one daughter noticed. "It's easy, Dad," coaxed Nicole, one of the twins, then wisely advised, "Just don't sink...
Senior guard Courtney Wicks, who gave the Crimson fits all night, then hit a jumper and junior guard Sue Porter followed up with a three-pointer. Wicks then drove to the basket, sank her shot and was fouled. She converted the three-point play to put the Peahens up by eight. Cromer added a bucket to make the score 54-44, and the Crimson, reeling in the midst of a 12-point St. Peter's run, took a timeout in an attempt to stop the bleeding...
Competing in a tri-meet format, the Crimson downed the Big Red, 176-123. The Crimson simultaneously sank the Big Green...
Remember all that stuff about hedge-fund manager George Soros making $1 billion by betting against the British pound? Or how about the disastrous interest-rate bet that sank the Nobel prizewinners at another hedge fund, Long-Term Capital? If you're like me, tales of derring-do and derring-don't at the hedgies leave you scratching for clues. Is such high-risk investing any way to build a nest...
...stooges to make his case for the future of the American novel (a case he has, not incidentally, made before). Novelists like Updike, Mailer and Irving, says Wolfe, write books that only other novelists of the same mistaken convictions would enjoy; more likely than not their most recent work "sank like a stone" from the public's interest. And yet they complain that there is a crisis in the health of the American novel, that nobody likes to read novels anymore-would-be readers would rather watch movies. Wolfe sees the same problem, and proposes a solution: "The American novel...