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Ganeshananthan, whose second book is still in progress, also said that her journalistic background helped her in her first foray into fiction...
...additional information; others might require some revisions,” Kenen wrote. Administrators are currently ironing out the details of how the Registrar’s office will track students’ secondary fields. “Implementing a new curricular initiative from scratch involves many background details that students don’t think about (nor should they have to),” Kenen wrote. “The time-frame for the implementation of secondary fields is actually going quite well, even though it may not seem that way from the perspective of students who are eager...
...comes back, of course, drawn by his guilt over a friend?s murder and eventually finds himself on the money trail of a smiling man whom Mankell sees as the picture of contemporary Swedish capitalism: perfect tan, private helicopters and a pair of homicidal mercenaries hovering in the background...
...background of that story was he was a lonely person--very lost, very lonely. His wife was killed in an accident, and his hate for the bureaucracy made him a renegade. But he truly was obsessed with the plight of the victim, which was his noble side. So, within a story like that, it was easy in those days for people who didn't want to think too much about it to say, "Oh, that's just a guy that's a crazy." But, you know, I just felt there are people like that...
DEAD MAN BALKING Bloggers crack wise after imperiled House Speaker Dennis Hastert gives a press conference on the congressional-page scandal with a cemetery visible in the background. Two days later, images of Hastert's Jabba the Hut--like visage, at a fund-raising event in the company of President Bush, are splashed across papers. With Bush's approval rating hovering around 40%, we have a suggestion: bring back the boneyard...