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...after three husbands, four children, two volumes of short stories and four novels--including one, The Shipping News, that won her the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--Proulx (rhymes with true) lives on her own in a well-timbered house on an unmarked dirt road. As you would expect from a successful writer whose books are full of cherry cobbler and sliced elk, she has one of those restaurant-quality stoves that in a pinch could double as an armored car. But on the whole, Proulx is more Annie Oakley than Betty Crocker. She can handle...
...yearlong study on the subject and sent his report to the President in March. There it collects dust, largely because Rumsfeld, the hyperpopular Pentagon chief, refuses to give up military control of intelligence budgets or assets. At a black-tie Washington dinner last week, when he presented an award to CIA director George Tenet, Scowcroft broke cover again. "For years, we had a poorly organized intelligence system," he said, "but it didn't matter because all the threats were overseas... So now we have a huge problem." It is unfair, he said, to ask Tenet "to take responsibility...
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...
...where they walk - that creeping weed underfoot could be a sought-after (and very expensive) delicacy. German epicures are developing an appetite for native herbs and long-forgotten indigenous vegetables. This hunger is triggered by "the appeal of turning something simple and outdated into something special and new," says award-winning chef Dieter M?ller, whose three-star restaurant in Bergisch Gladbach's elegant Schlosshotel Lerbach offers such exotic treats as veal filet coated with turnip-rooted chervil and flat-leaf parsley...
...plans to use the award to take a hiatus from his primary interest—neurology—and study education at Oxford University next year...