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...according to Committee Member Nancy Walser, Segat was having a root canal...
...when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots to uncouple Panama from Colombia--so that the U.S. could have a freer hand to build its great canal across the isthmus--Morris is not bending to the presidential lunch table to serve the soup and listen in. When T.R. holds forth at some White House reception, Morris doesn't flutter past in a bustle and bonnet, taking surreptitious notes...
...solitary child--her father distant, her severe mother dead--Amelie amused herself with hand puppets; her playmates are things. Now grown-up, a waitress, she seeks sensuous, not sensual, pleasures: cracking the shell of a creme brulee, skipping stones in the local canal. Her life changes on Aug. 31, 1997, with the news of Princess Diana's death. In surprise she drops a perfume stopper, which rolls toward the wall; behind a loose brick she discovers something else, a boy's prized chest of trinkets, 40 years old. She resolves to find out who the owner is. She gets...
...neighborhood is TriBeCa (for Triangle Below Canal Street, and if you don?t mind I?ll drop the second and third capital letters from now on). You may have seen us on TV recently: we?re not far from the former World Trade Center. How not-close? Well, these days, anyone who lives or works in lower Manhattan brags about how close they are to Ground Zero. I live on Hudson Street, three blocks above Chambers Street - eight blocks from the northern hem of the World Trade Center complex. Or maybe we?re closer. In a recent interview...
...class parents, fiercely protective, hustle him out of town and down to Rehoboth Beach, where his Aunt Edna runs a thriving restaurant/boardinghouse. Well, not Rehoboth Beach exactly, Jim Crow being what it was back then, but rather West Rehoboth, that ?coloreds only? country on the other side of the canal...What Pate, writing from the heart makes particularly vivid is the way endemic, inescapable racism suffocates and ruins...