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...unable to find his bag since his wife's death left him with a nasty case of writer's block. His nights are haunted by her ghost and visions of Sara Laughs, his summer home named after a "Negro" singer from the 1900s. Mike returns to that home to confront its secrets. An exorcism is in order, but that task is interrupted by Mike's battle to save a leggy blonde and her daughter from a ludicrously evil duo. Alas, the novel's spirits have more flesh than the humans, who barely qualify even as bags of bones...
...falls in love with her husband's brother while her husband is away in jail. Addressing the difficult issues of an individual's responsibility to her family, to her friends and to her own happiness, the novel attempts to weigh the importance of love and loyalty and to confront the difficulties that arise when emotion and reason conflict...
...other bands might fear that such a conspicuous track might trap buyers into assuming that the other songs on the disc were of the same style (how many of you bought Blind Melon in the hopes that every song would be sound like "No Rain?"), John Rzeznik and company confront the supposedly dangerous supposition with shameless affirmation. Yes, they say, every song on this album is (or at least attempts to be) just like "Iris." We hope you like...
...college may bein the criminal justice system, underemployed orunemployed, or simply very bright people who justhave not been given the opportunity to show theycan earn a college degree," says Black StudentsAssociation Vice President Jason B. Phillips '99."It's another problem that black people on campushave to confront and try to solve in the largersociety...
Bringing countries around the world together to confront poverty and inequality is a theme that runs through many of Mandela's speeches. A man who practices what he preaches, Mandela often takes his ideas from continent to continent, speaking before the United Nations and other governments...