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...writers--may have been tinged with a little inspired hyperbole, but as general editor he has overseen the production of short biographies (roughly 200 pages each) by some very good writers indeed, including Garry Wills (on Saint Augustine), Larry McMurtry (on Crazy Horse) and Mary Gordon (on Joan of Arc). All the authors were paid advances from $50,000 to $100,000, and those who expressed a desire to choose their subjects were often told to go ahead...
...been looking for the opportunity to write a short life." Gordon recalls Atlas' phone call asking her if she'd be interested in contributing a Penguin Lives volume: "It was as if a lightning bolt hit me. I said, 'Yes, I'd like to do Joan of Arc.' I've been really fascinated by her since I was a little girl." Although she was teaching at Barnard College and working on a novel, she does not begrudge the year and a half she spent on Joan of Arc. "I had never really written about anybody whose life was a life...
Displays at the museum begin with the Opium Wars of the 19th century and extend to the bloody confrontations with Colombian cocaine cartels in our day. Elizabeth and 15 of her classmates from Arlington's Washington-Lee High School followed this narrative arc with the help of Fred Smith, who, like most of the museum's docents, is a retired DEA special agent...
Nonetheless, the human race is undeniably becoming a faster race. Since the beginning of the past century, track-and-field records have fallen in everything from sprints to miles to marathons. The performance arc is clearly rising, but no one knows how much higher it could climb. At some point, even the best-trained body simply has to up and quit. The question is, just where is that point, and is it possible for athletes, trainers and scientists to push it higher...
That set Clinton off on an arc of good pictures and vibes, with visits to the Taj Mahal; to a village where dancing women showered him with flower petals; to a nature preserve, where the First Tourist saw two Bengal tigers; and, finally, after days of security-minded abstention, to his first plunge into a subcontinental rope line...