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...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 Starts...
...would “become Brown.” Concentration requirements would remain just as rigorous and, if need be, the faculty could impose a loose distribution requirement. Such a distribution requirement was, in fact, the original result of Harvard’s search to replace the Core. A brief interlude under such a requirement would not disadvantage students who entered under the current system, and would also allow the College to be sure it made the right choice in discarding that alternative...
...Obama’s victory represents something more than a brief aberration in the ordinary political process. Obama won with enthusiastic support from more groups than his typical strongholds—college students and highly educated liberals. More women voted for Obama than for Clinton; more union members and their families voted for Obama than for Edwards. Clearly, then, his victory in Iowa was not only a consequence of his campaign’s ability to mobilize an established base of voters...
...more than our 15 minutes. We know the national attention has been a bonanza for the state's hospitality industry, media outlets, politicians and pundits. (Des Moines fairly glowed after it was described recently as "cool" by the New York Times.) We realize that for one brief shining moment, we're no longer confused with Ohio or Idaho. "Iowa matters in a very serious way, despite all the punditry a year ago that it wouldn't," says David Redlawsk, a political science professor at the University of Iowa...
...Saturday morning, shortly after 8 a.m. local time, the man called "the Aussie Taliban" walked free from Adelaide's Yatala Prison in South Australia. Having served nine months for supporting al-Qaeda terrorists, David Matthew Hicks, 32, in jeans and a green polo shirt, issued a brief statement through his lawyer, David McLeod: "I had hoped to be able to speak to the media, but I'm just not strong enough. It's as simple as that...