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...Windbag Saloon, a former brothel on Last Chance Gulch in Helena, unemployed office manager Carol Muir wants a speed limit of 75 or 80, but bartender Bob Maronick says, "I don't want to have to look at my speedometer all the time." In the cause of investigative reporting, Muir leads a three-saloon tour, and this scientific survey gives a slight edge to speed limits. A Great Falls Tribune survey found 64% in favor of a speed limit but only 50% in favor of bothering with a special session of the state legislature to get it done in January...
...Carol Shields, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for The Stone Diaries, ever tires of writing fiction, she should consider taking up biography. Her newest novel, Larry's Party, paints a subtle portrait of Larry Weller by taking, as the book jacket states, "a CAT scan of his life." If Shields can make a fictional character seem so alive, she could do wonders with an actual human being...
...given," Turner says. "I'm not on anyone's case right now." His role models range from billionaire philanthropist George Soros to octogenarian Oseola McCarty, the Mississippi washerwoman who gave $150,000 to pay for scholarships at a local college. And, says Turner, he draws inspiration from A Christmas Carol ("the greatest book on giving I ever read") and the joy Scrooge finds when he finally adopts a more charitable attitude toward the Cratchit family...
...first novel since the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Stone Diaries (1995), Carol Shields takes on the burden of eliciting interest in a rather unprepossessing hero. Larry's Party (Viking; 339 pages; $23.95) offers 15 chapters, each of which has the stand-alone feel of a short story, excerpting details from the imagined life of one Larry Weller...
...celebration of the appointment of Professor Carol A. Gilligan to a newly endowed chair in gender studies at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), a panel entitled "Gender Matters" was held last night in a packed Longfellow Hall...