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...Clark, a senior buyer for Maine retailer L.L. Bean, says the system "frees me" to talk about issues - health care and taxes and sprawl. State senator Susan Longley says "clean" campaigning has refocused her "totally on my constituents" - not contributors. Longley's challenger, former Belfast Sheriff John Ford, says without the new law, he wouldn't be in the race. When friends asked him to run, he says, "I told them I was not going to ask the people of Waldo County to give me $35,000 to $40,000" to campaign...
Barbara Kingsolver's reputation achieved something like critical (and commercial) mass with The Poisonwood Bible (1998). Her three earlier novels, The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams (1990) and Pigs in Heaven (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in Poisonwood, a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories...
Sitting on the floor--except for a big blue bean-bag, there's nowhere else to sit in their common room--Lee is working on another decoration for the bare walls. He and his roommates have acquired one of the large yellow and blue signs advertising Head of the Charles that are hung on street light poles around Cambridge--though they prefer...
Luckily for the bean-counters, someone took a gamble on the idea. But it's interesting to consider why such a formula seems to work so well. Some have suggested that the idealism of "West Wing" constitutes some sort of wish-fulfillment for its viewers. In the modern world, zoning out in front of the television may indeed be tantamount to a 21st century version of dreaming; had Freud lived today, he might agree that when we switch into couch potato mode, we are unconsciously drawn to that which we desire most...
...telephone, answering only by e-mail. Her responses were among the briefest that Conrad received from assistant deans. The story quoted the comments of others who defended or praised Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, including former Assistant Dean Sarah B. Drummond, current Assistant Dean Philip A. Bean and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, as well as Nathans herself...