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...everything she needed at her fingertips. "I never had the idea of how an authentic novel should be, so that might be why I could do it," she says. "I simply wrote like I text." Using the pseudonym Momo, she posted K - about a bar hostess who gives birth to her client's child - in brief chapters on the keitai shosetsu website Gocco. It was voted the site's most popular title, and went on to win first prize in a TV-sponsored keitai shosetsu competition - landing the Saitama homemaker over $9,000 and a book deal with Tokyo publisher...
...remarkable congruence with their own views: stewardship of the environment, a “humble” foreign policy, humane and fair immigration laws, and respect for the sanctity of life—whether it be life threatened by political unrest in Kenya or by inhumane practices of partial-birth abortion at home. Similarly, Huckabee’s Fair Tax proposal appeals to both populist-minded liberals and spending-hawk conservatives...
Pakistan was a country orphaned at birth. Born of hope in 1947, the new nation - an independent state for the Muslim-majority provinces of northwestern and eastern India - promised to be the success story of the subcontinent, a democratic entity divested of India's terrible legacy of caste entitlement. Little more than a year after Mohammed Ali Jinnah signed the document declaring Pakistan a sovereign state, the erudite, Savile Row-suited father of the nation died of lung cancer and tuberculosis, leaving the infant democracy bereft of his enlightened guidance. With him died the charismatic leadership that his new nation...
...fireworks driving out demons, the bells ringing in a new age. Women on the Isle of Man used to sprinkle the floor with ashes on New Year's Eve, then look for footprints in the morning: steps leading toward the door portended a death; steps entering meant a birth in the family. Texans believed eating black-eyed peas would bring good luck. In Scottish Hogmanay celebrations, you want the first foot that crosses the threshold after midnight to belong to a dark-haired man bearing a small gift, for that will bless the year to come...
...house divided when it comes to supporting a GOP candidate, but Mike Huckabee continues his efforts to win them over. In a new TV spot, the pastor candidate claims to put politics aside in the spirit of the holiday, announcing "What really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ." His campaign insists X-mas isn't an event to spin, but with a tree in the background--and a cross, formed by the intersection of shelves--Huckabee is positioning himself as the friendly, faithful candidate, vs. Mitt Romney and his attack...