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...many people believe that. Fresh evidence to the contrary can now be found in Call If You Need Me (Vintage; 300 pages; $13), a gathering of the author's previously uncollected nonfiction, plus five unpublished short stories. Three of them were found by the poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's companion for the last decade of his life and wife for his last few months, in the home they shared at Port Angeles, Wash.; the other two turned up among Carver's papers at Ohio State University. In a foreword, Gallagher notes that she had reservations about making public stories that...
...aide to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger during the Iran-Contra scandal - in which capacity he'd helped facilitate the CIA's acquisition of a shipment of missiles to be sent to Iran to help secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon - Powell replied, "I was his faithful Indian companion." What's most notable here is less his (legitimate) minimizing of his role in the scandal than his choice of the Tonto characterization. But Powell wasn't bolting from the side of his former boss. Far from it. So deep was his loyalty that Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh...
...search for "recipes" on Yahoo turned up dozens of cooking sites, ranging from starchefs.com which features the likes of Alice Waters and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, to yumyum.com which caters to college students on a budget. Many off-line favorites have companion sites like bettycrocker.com cooksillustrated.com and foodtv.com There's even a Weird and Different Recipes site, offering spider salad and curried kangaroo tail...
...reasons for the delay in churning out the fifth book in the series: Lack of time. The Harry Potter film, a North American book tour and other projects have stolen Rowling's writing time. Chief amoung these projects are two Harry Potter companion books Rowling is writing for a U.K. charity called Comic Relief. The books, "Quidditch Through the Ages" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", will appear under the pseudonyms of Kennilworthy Whisp and Newt Scamander on March 12. Rowling will donate net proceeds to the Harry Potter Fund at Comic Relief, U.K., a charity...
...positive results that arise from addressing a rape and carrying through with the investigation taxes and drains the emotional well-being of a sexual assault victim. And the capacity to pursue such an arduous process is undeniably exacerbated when the offender is a personal acquaintance, friend or even romantic companion. Addressing the issue within Harvard's ivy-clad walls and under the auspices of the formal Ad Board procures a sense of security that justice is not only being addressed, but in a way that ensures that the least number of people suffer in the process...