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...nationally ranked swimmer, straight As, great boards, nice kid. Got rejected at his top three choices, wait-listed at two more. Who gets into Yale these days anyway? Maybe they should have sent him to Mali for the summer to dig wells, fight malaria, give him something to write about in his essay...
...wall is written on, lights are smashed. It makes me sad. It's because Italians don't care. I think very soon we'll have to decide whether we want to keep our Venetian, carnivalesque fantasy, or maybe make some sacrifice." For now, Severgnini's contribution is to keep writing, the one thing he'll admit to doing well. "The only thing I could do since I was a child was write. During my military service, I created a lot of couples - I was a good love-letter writer." Now, instead of matchmaking, he maintains "Italians," the daily newspaper Corriere...
...masturbation and menstruation. For a high school speech class, he brought in his stuffed Kanga and Roo toys to illustrate his talk about Australian wildlife. "It's like, if I were making a list of things that I don't want to talk about and don't want to write about publicly, these would be at the top of it," Franzen says. "That's the organizing principle: precisely the things that I think are least suitable for public consumption are the ones that I wanted to find a way to write about publicly, and to try to forgive myself...
...Franzen shedding his fears, or at least learning to live with them. And the success of The Corrections has been a big part of that. "I really hit the jackpot," he says, sounding as if he's still freshly relieved. "I wrote the book that I wanted to write, and then--which couldn't be counted on--it got a tremendous amount of attention. So that burning feeling of being unrecognized for what I felt myself to be is momentarily alleviated...
...Meanwhile, Karr's brother Nate, who hasn't spoken with him in five years, told Fox News that his brother's fascination with pedophiles and predators stemmed not from pathological obsession, but from an intent to write a book about men who commit crimes against children. Nate has also said that he thinks his brother wrote to Polly's convicted killer in prison. Karr also said he wrote several letters to JonBenet's mother Patricia, who died of cancer two months ago, expressing remorse for having murdered her daughter...