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Fans may register astonishment; Ryan does not. Awe is not in the arsenal of a man who has been doing so well for so long. He is an uncomplicated genius with sensible priorities. In 1988, when the gentleman farmer from Alvin, Texas, became a free agent, he spurned heftier offers in order to play with a team near his home and family. His second family is the Ranger teammates, who mobbed him after the no-hitter. Because some of them were barely in Pampers when Ryan first pitched for the Mets in 1966, the scene also suggested a Father...
...story could easily have ended here, and in a not very original way: another aspiring artist surrenders to the exigencies of the real world. But Turow's arrival at Harvard came with one of those little anomalies that inspire curious readers to turn the page. While explaining to his agent his decision to abandon literature, Turow had mentioned the possibility of someone's doing a nonfiction book about the experiences of first-year law students. He received a $4,000 contract to do just that. So he went to Harvard not only to study law but also, as he says...
Even the plot is complex enough to require Cliffs Notes. It goes like this. Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is a 21st century construction worker: a happily married man occasionally nagged by dreams of Martian landscapes. Except he isn't. He is really Hauser, an agent from Mars Intelligence who has been given the memory of Quaid in order to fulfill a dark and secret mission that will shuttle him between the planets...
First it was, Who Killed Laura Palmer? Now the big question is, Who Shot Agent Dale Cooper? But with Twin Peaks adjourned for the summer, the networks are pondering another, even deeper mystery. For help, they have called in Agent Cooper himself. We pick him up as he drives into a new town, dictating into his omnipresent tape recorder...
...loving home. But now many admit that even the most committed parents may be overwhelmed by unexpected problems. In 1986 Dan and Rhonda Stanton adopted a blond baby girl they named Stacey Rene. "We thought we had a perfect baby because she didn't cry," says Dan, an insurance agent in suburban Dallas. Their contentment faded as the months passed and Stacey did not develop properly. She didn't babble and laugh like their friends' babies and couldn't pinch with her individual fingers. The tentative diagnosis: Rett's syndrome, a rare genetic disorder in which the brain stops growing...