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Though much less is known about the six months the trio spent touring San Diego County, there is some evidence that Elizabeth was falling further under Mitchell's sway. While in Salt Lake, Elizabeth had freely roamed the aisles of the Wild Oats supermarket in which Trotta worked, but Mark Arabo, the manager of Wrigley's Market in Lakeside, Calif., observed a much more chastened customer. Over the four months that the three patronized his store, Arabo said, they always stuck to the same pattern. The two women walked meekly behind the man and never grabbed anything from a shelf...
This is the second consecutive year that the ECAC Player of the Year Award has not gone to a senior. Rensselaer forward Marc Cavosie, then a junior, won last season before signing with the NHL’s Minnesota Wild...
...terrible freedom of war--with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities--inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle--deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...
...grapes being used are special as well. In Missouri the Stone Hill Winery is producing excellent wines with the native red Norton grape. In Minnesota the hybrid Marechal Foch is featured in Alexis Bailly Vineyard's unique orange-infused fortified wine, Ratafia. South Dakota's Valiant Vineyards boasts a Wild Grape Red that is being successfully sold in Paris...
That's a photograph of a waterfall on the dust jacket of A Ship Made of Paper (Ecco; 352 pages), Scott Spencer's very fine new novel about wild love. But don't imagine it's there because his reckless lovers--one white, one black--find a happy ending at Niagara Falls. This is a book about love as a torrent, a force of nature that overwhelms families, harrows lives and lays waste to whole towns as it thunders through. Love may be our only hope, but when you put this book down--not an easy thing...