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...OUTBACK BARD The west coast of Australia has long drawn some of the country's greatest writers, photographers and artists. But few have captured the essence of this stark, ruggedly beautiful territory like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...
...almost never wrote her first. The daughter of a factory manager from Oak Park, Ill.--the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway, the bard of brawn--the tiny, winsome Shields never imagined she could become a writer at all. "I thought it was like wanting to be a movie star!" she recalls. "I never thought writers could be people like me." Instead, she married Don Shields, an engineer, and moved to Canada, where she had five children in 10 years...
...bard of capitalism would scarcely recognize what California created as a "free market." The rules remained complex and rife with perverse incentives. The benefits to be gained from the system--taking advantage of its loopholes and stretching them wider--are all too obvious. Mike Aguirre, a San Diego lawyer who specializes in fraud and is representing California in one of its suits against Enron, took an energy-trading course in Houston last year in an enterprising bid to understand what the other side was being taught. There he learned Megawatt Laundering, or how to sell California its own electricity...
...Judson Grill, a sleek New York City hangout for publishing types, Gollob, 71, reflected on the path that has taken him on scholarly jaunts to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, to Oxford University and even to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. His interest in the Bard is only intensifying, the Houston-born Gollob says with a Texas twang. "You read Shakespeare like you read the Bible," he says. "Because he's rich in ambiguity, you find something new each time you read him, something you've missed...
...sheer luck that he stumbled on the Bard of Avon when he did, says Gollob. What advice does he have for seniors who want to stay as intellectually engaged as he has? "Take as many courses as you possibly can," he says. "Find adult-education courses. Audit college courses if possible. This may sound frivolous, but get into it not so much for the profundity but just to have a good time." After all, as Shakespeare put it, "the play's the thing...