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...know a woman whose son died by drowning on the night of his high school graduation. She told me she got through the weeks and months afterward by reading and rereading the works of Willa Cather. The calm and clarity of Cather's prose stabilized the woman and helped her through the time...
...bright spring Saturday, April 26, 1986. A townsman came in from sunning himself on a roof, exclaiming that he had never seen anything like it, he had turned brown in no time at all. He had what would later be known as a nuclear tan. A few hours afterward, the man was taken away in an ambulance, convulsed with uncontrollable vomiting. Soon many of his neighbors were coughing, throwing up and complaining of headaches and a metallic taste in their mouth...
...blond who had signed a movie deal for her story before the charges were even brought. Westchester County, N.Y., is hosting the "Fatal Attraction" trial, in which a besotted schoolteacher is charged with murdering her lover's wife, and having a tryst with him in a parking lot afterward...
After "K." climbed into my second-story window (which had been closed--not left "wide open"--and unlatched because it did not have a lock), we spoke for a few minutes, and then he asked for a kiss goodbye. I kissed him, expecting that afterward he would leave. Instead, K. pushed me down, on my back, onto my bed. I said, "What are you doing?" He climbed on top of me, pulled my arms down to my sides and held them at the wrists. He kicked my legs open with his own and although I tried to move out from...
...even in the midst of a ground war, an Israeli move against Iraq could split apart the allied coalition and enormously complicate battle plans. Israel's best deterrence, he argued, was to be a close ally of the foremost world power. But Arens did not leave empty-handed; shortly afterward, the U.S. increased its Scud-busting air sorties against Iraq...