Word: carl
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...some sort of nervous indisposition and goes home to rest at her parents' farm in rural Wisconsin. They have both recently died, victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. The only people living there now are Mathilda Neumann, Amanda's younger sister, and Mattie's three-year-old daughter Ruth. Carl Neumann, the husband and father, is still recovering in France from his wartime injuries. And then, suddenly, Mattie too is dead, having fallen through the ice on a nearby lake and drowned...
What happened? That, naturally, is what Carl wants to know when he gets back to the farm. But Amanda will answer only with generalities about some sort of skating accident: "Mattie was always taking chances, always doing things she shouldn't have done, things I told her not to do." Carl doesn't understand why his wife would have left Ruth with her aunt and gone skating on a November night or why Ruth, when he and she are standing together at Mattie's grave, mentions an "ice baby" that she remembers "when I drowned...
...well as model Christie Brinkley, fresh from casting her vote to nominate Al Gore as part of the New York delegation. There were newsies/talk show hosts too, like Bill Maher of "Politically Incorrect," Jon Stewart of Comedy Central and former Washington Post and TIME mag man Carl Bernstein (now running Evote)as well as editor Frank Lalli of George magazine, which cohosted the fund-raiser along with the Creative Coalition and some no-name types like George Clooney, Melanie Griffith, Goldie Hawn, Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta and Harvey Weinstein. Whew...
...that instantly became known as Internet Alley. At Voter.com a site reportedly backed by $50 million in venture capital, 35 computers in a Cyber Cafe spewed briefings, commentary and gavel-to-gavel coverage. "We want to combine really good traditional journalism with edgy contributions from the best guys," says Carl Bernstein, who as executive editor of Voter.com is among a bevy of Old Guard notables to be drawn to the brash new sites...
...organize their lawbreaking protests. In an Internet posting from Santa Cruz last week, Earth First! beckons, "You're all invited to sunny California for a weekend of workshops, training and fun! We also have plenty of [genetically engineered] crops waiting for your night time gardening efforts." Says Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's executive director: "I've never seen an issue go so quickly...