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...never had writer's block once I started. But I did have periods when I had to just get up and drop it--it was just too hot. I have that pretty gripping scene in the early part of the book where my stepfather was drunk and he had the gun in his hand and he shot it off, and my mother and I were standing in the hall and the bullet goes in the wall between us. I felt it all over again. It was frightening...
...their choice, not ours. As soon as they're as rich as we are, it is their choice, not ours. So I think we should be trying to create a world we would like to live in even if we're not the only big dog on the block...
...current plan: a June 30 handover, with direct elections to be held next January. Bremer finally backed off the caucus idea. Bremer's ultimate willingness to compromise earned him the highest praise of his tenure. Greenstock says that Bremer "was the guiding hand for ending Sistani's block without a bust-up. He managed it very well...
...ministering, and that "it has been the women in my churches who have nurtured my feminine side." Whatever her personal learning curve, her professional manner has always felicitously mixed the stereotypical feminine and masculine virtues. Or as another high-powered Presbyterian, Wisconsin's the Rev. Deborah Block, puts it admiringly, "Susan can command a room and hug it at the same time...
...found the market's number. - By Adam Smith Expensive Scoop Chicago-based newspaper publisher Hollinger International agreed to sell the Telegraph Group - including Britain's Daily Telegraph - to the U.K.'s Barclay brothers for $1.2 billion. Hollinger's controlling shareholder, ousted chairman Conrad Black, may yet try to block the deal...