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...make ends meet, Albion and his partners serve as consultants to businesses that seek to attract and retain similarly passionate employees...
Other genres--mystery, thriller, horror, sci-fi--attract no cultural stigma, but those categories also appeal heavily to male readers. Romances do not, and therein, some of the genre's champions argue, lies the problem. "I cannot help but suspect," writes romance author Penelope Williamson, "that romance is so often ridiculed and denigrated because it is a literature written almost exclusively by women for women...
...they probably will, perhaps through the publicity campaign under way for Roberts' new hardback offering of this year, Carolina Moon (Putnam; 438 pages; $24.95). This novel is a romance tooled to attract readers of popular fiction who may not think, or know, that they like romances. It is longer than Roberts' formula books and offers a larger cast of characters. The central love story is buttressed by a second one between supporting players. And Roberts includes elements from other pop genres, including a paranormal ability and a long-unsolved murder...
...happens, not everyone is happy to see him. "Most Republican senators are miffed that they have to make nice," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, "but they recognize how important it is for the GOP to look unified right now." Even McCain's proven ability to attract a new breed of voter to the Republican fold may serve to isolate him, particularly among those senators prone to jealousy - or to holding grudges. "They've seen how successful McCain was on the road, and they know he is responsible for many voters' seeing the party in a whole new light," says...
...been trying to attract more professors since 1989, according to Clark, not just in response to students' needs but to add "more intellectual horsepower in various academic fields," including intellectual and cyberspace...