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...devices as unreliable narrators, characters who turn out to be angels in disguise, and good old melodrama. Echoes of past masters -- Henry James and John O'Hara, for instance -- abound. What saves the stories from seeming contrived is their natural assurance of voice (the sentences read as if spoken aloud), their steadiness of moral compass and their acuity -- often humorous -- of detail...
...Harry and Louise are Everyman," says Goddard, but no one like them has ever been seen in nature. Which is more fantastic? That a cappuccino-swilling duo would be caught dead spooning coffee from a jar, or that a two-career couple would spend their nights reading aloud from government documents? That anyone, much less the sophisticated lady with the arch British accent, would cart Taster's Choice to Paris, the City of Cafes, or that Harry's response to his wife's persistent nattering would be a chipper "Health-care reform again, huh?" If the pair of them...
...children at 219 three times starting on Nov. 20 but had allowed its field workers to be turned away at the door; now it was investigating its own investigation. At a prayer breakfast last week with Mother Teresa, President Clinton cited headlines about the tragedy and wondered aloud: "Not in Calcutta but Chicago...
...have diminished. The new Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, who also owns Foxborough Stadium, will keep the football club in Massachusetts. Thus, there is no longer an urgent need to entice the owner with the benefits of a state-funded football wonderland. And now liberal state politicians are wondering aloud whether other projects might better serve their constituents...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points is you can hack...