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...just watch a good brain surgeon for a few months," a certain high school teacher was fond of saying, "then I'm sure I could operate just as well as anyone with 13 years experience." Laws prevent such hands-on medical training, but if he tried operating that way anyhow, it's easy to predict his fate. Dozens of contract-waving literary agents would scramble past his shabbily dressed public defense lawyer and one of the first would be the type that signed up James S. Kunen on "The Making of a Criminal Lawyer"--the story of Kunen...
...This is Jill. I'm not at home now. I'm out or something. But I guess that's like obvious. Anyhow, if you want to leave a message...
...Fitzgibbon, had participated in a complicated vote-fraud scheme to steal a 1982 runoff election. The beneficiary: the speaker's father, Daniel D. Draper II, 72. But despite the help of at least 58 questionable absentee ballots, the elder Draper lost the race for the state house seat anyhow. And until last week, his son, one of only four politicians in the state's history to be elected speaker for three terms, was a very good bet for higher office. Now, like Fitzgibbon, the younger Draper faces a maximum of five years in prison. Maintains Draper...
...York, when he could neither find work nor write poems, Princeton came to the rescue. Critic R.P. Blackmur offered a temporary post teaching creative writing. He advised the couple: "Make yourselves invaluable, and they won't be able to let you go." They tried, and were let go anyhow. But a combination of grants, fellowships, publishers' advances and occasional teaching kept the Berrymans in Princeton for nearly ten years. She left...
This was the spirit of the Hundred Days. Action, and action now. Said Will Rogers: "The whole country is with him, just so he does something. If he burned down the Capitol, we would cheer and say, 'Well, we at least got a fire started anyhow.' " On Roosevelt's second Sunday in the White House, he remarked at dinner, "I think this would be a good time for beer." That same night, he drafted a message calling for Congress to cancel the Prohibition ban on 3.2 beer. The House approved this on Tuesday and the Senate...