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...cheer began sometime between the second and third touchdown runs. Small at first, it spread among the students until even those freshmen who didn’t have a clue who he was found themselves chanting in unison...
...Everything’s a little sloppier the first game,” he said, stopping to cheer as freshman cornerback Andrew Berry broke up a pass attempt from Holy Cross quarterback John O’Neil...
...took up dentistry again. So what? a reader might ask. "I wasn't sure there would be any interest in this story," Seth confides from the office of his London publisher. "My mother asked me to interview Shanti Uncle because he was sick and lonely. She thought it would cheer him, and I thought it was my duty as a son and great-nephew. But his verve and the story itself convinced me there was something there, the relationship between two remarkable people." They made a strange couple. Short and energetic, Shanti loved talk and his evening whisky. Henny, tall...
...suggests that Smith is, indeed, a talent to watch over the long haul. You are not simply entertained by the writer's versatility and brilliant characters; you really care about these people. When they are stubborn you want to slap some sense into them. When they do good you cheer. And when they behave thoughtlessly you tend to forgive, because you can't escape the nagging suspicion that you yourself might not have behaved any better. The characters are, after all, only human, and when writing a novel one might as well begin with that...
...remain in her seat until a replacement is confirmed, Bush will have a full court this fall. What's more, at a time when his popularity is at its lowest point and he's getting hammered for the federal response to Katrina, Roberts gives Republicans something to cheer about. It rallies an uncertain base...