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...helps you find peace." That may sound a tad simplistic, but try telling that to the 100,000 devoted followers on Cilley's online mailing list, many of whom insist that her e-mails changed their life. "I used to end each day feeling inadequate and miserable," says Joy Critchfield, a mother of four who joined the list last April. "Now I wake up excited to be alive." And while there is no shortage of organizational guides for sale in bookstores, or professionals who will do the dirty work for a fee, only Cilley offers a free service that promises...
...leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion team that went to Miami, then with the Seattle Mariners. Says local booster Jack Critchfield: "We've been used as a nuclear threat to other communities to make them give teams whatever they want...
Journalist Richard Critchfield: $244,000 in 1981. "At 50," says Critchfield, "I was an aging freelance reporter who wrote about Third World villages and was finding it harder to make a go of it." The grant helped him conquer those concerns. "I'm saving the whole thing and then I'm going to live off the interest," says Critchfield. "It's income forever, and it affects your writing. It becomes freer. Your anxiety level drops...
Thanks to the grant, Critchfield is devoting far more time than he normally would to a study of a new and different subject, the village of Fessenden, N. Dak. (pop. 600), which happens to be his birthplace. Says Critchfeld: "There was one big, invisible string attached to the MacArthur prize: it was something you had to live up to." Translation: not having the time or the money will not do as an excuse to avoid work...
Others have not been so canny. Press coverage, says the Washington Star's Richard Critchfield, has played into the hands of Buddhism's political kingmakers. "I don't think Tri Quang would have really existed without the American press," he says. "He has fooled an awful lot of people for a long time into thinking he speaks for the Buddhists of South Viet Nam. Now, I know he only pretends to speak for about one and a half million people." Critchfield also questions the immolations: "My impression is that these just aren't voluntary suicides...