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Some of Turow's irritability stemmed from the recognition that his writing was going nowhere. In spite of his gratitude to helpful professors -- part of his earnings from Presumed Innocent went to endow a fellowship at Stanford -- he felt stymied by "academic values about literature, the sense that books could be appreciated only by a priesthood. I thought that a great novel could be read as well by a bus driver as by an English professor. It was not a popular view." He was also convinced that no great novels would be written by him. "It finally dawned...
...threatens the peace of the Middle East was on the ropes himself just a few years ago. Saddam Hussein's forces were on the verge of being overrun by Iran's fanatical Revolutionary Guards, and in spite of billions of dollars in aid to Iraq from other Arab states, his weaponry was insufficient, his coffers were empty and his credit rating was abysmal. Despite an informal embargo, the world's armsmakers were willing to sell Iraq practically anything -- for a price. Eventually Saddam found benefactors in the West: nations more fearful of an Iranian victory than of him. France supplied...
...spite of crisis and chaos in the emergency rooms, the photographers had only praise for the doctors and nurses working there. "They are incredibly cool and professional," says Kenneth Jarecke, who took his cameras to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore...
...while students point to the difficulty of the concentration as one reason for its small size, they say that if more interested students knew about the department they might be tempted to join it in spite of the many requirements...
...spite of the optimism with which the formation of the Democratic Liberal Party was welcomed four months ago, its fortunes are already going downhill. At the national elections in 1987, President Roh Tae Woo received only 36% of the vote, and his party was stymied for two years by an opposition-controlled national assembly. So when two of the three rival parties joined Roh's group to form the D.L.P., which now holds 218 of the 299 parliamentary seats, it looked as if Roh's promised "democratization" program of liberal reforms would be pushed ahead. Opinion polls showed an approval...