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...oldest stories in literature: a boy goes forth into the world, forsaking his past, only to return home as a man and discover that it was where he was always meant to be. And so it was for Joe Hill. After years of getting nowhere peddling middlebrow literary fiction ("stories about divorce and children trying to figure out their parents," he calls them today), Hill began to write tales of murderers, evil spirits and giant bugs--the kinds of subject matter better associated with his father Stephen King. And like the heroes of such stories, Hill (who writes under...
Reality is more than a TV genre now. It's the burgeoning career field that led Richard Heene to perpetrate the Balloon Boy hoax, and Tareq and Michaele Salahi to crash a White House dinner, Bravo TV cameras in tow. It's the content mill for the cable-tabloid-blog machine, employing human punch lines like Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced governor turned contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. It's everywhere. When Scott Brown won an upset Senate victory in Massachusetts, he was joined onstage by his daughter Ayla, an American Idol semifinalist from Season...
Bill has another revolt to worry about. His opponent in the Republican primary has seized on the death of a "lost boy" - a teen refugee from Juniper Creek - to plaster the hall with mug shots of the teenage Bill, himself a lost boy when his father threw him out of the compound. During the debate, Bill summons the resolve to give a big Frank Capra speech, confessing that to stay alive he committed burglaries and worse: "I did things for cash that haunt me to this day." He insists that society must save the lost boys. "Until we embrace them...
...three games, I'm very happy. I'm very blessed." And he's justifiably proud of Saturday's finish. "I had that big slip, lost my speed, then I saw everybody flying by me," he says of the 1,000-meter final. "And I'm like, 'oh boy, there's not a lot of time left, I have to kind of crank it up.' I was able to fight hard, come back, regroup mentally. I was very happy I was able to win a bronze medal. Number seven." A record. It's just too bad a few more aren...
...some point, amid all the calculating and constructing, you start to miss the good old-fashioned bravado that's a big part of any competition. "When you show up to a figure-skating event, if you don't have the hardest jump, from the time you're a little boy, you are apologizing a little bit," says Wylie. "I remember being little and showing up at competitions, and everyone asked, 'What jumps do you have?' " What answer will skating have in another four years...