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Drinking binges at Princeton University's eating clubs send about three dozen students to the hospital, according to an April 26 article in The Record...
...also a measure of how much has changed in Northern Ireland over the past half a dozen years. Most important, the 1.6 million people of the province, Protestant and Catholic alike, have come to hate the war of hate and are demanding peace. Second, the terrorists have come to believe they can win more from talking than from killing. And finally, the huge parliamentary majority rolled up by Tony Blair and the Labour Party has stripped the recalcitrant Unionists of their veto over the efforts of the British government to change the status of its troubled province...
...Interpol, national police from half a dozen countries--through the decades and across the map of Europe and Scandinavia--they all chased Einhorn. There were stakeouts; interviews with monied acquaintances, including an international rock star and a billionaire socialite; and even a brief attempt by a vigilante cyberposse from Australia to stalk the computer junkie by Internet. Three times in those 16 years, police were close enough to feel his heat. Each time, Einhorn melted away. Now, in remote Champagne-Mouton, another chance...
...spend the majority of every day thinking about how best to communicate with writers," says Field. "And that's what did it." The letters work. Moody (The Ice Storm, Purple America), who doesn't use the Web and can't imagine anyone reading onscreen, got half a dozen of the letters. "They kept sending me letters saying, 'I love your work. I love your work.' And I kept saying, 'I don't have any time. I have nothing to say about this.'" Eventually he relented. "I'm against online publications in principle, but just found Genevieve's energy appealing...
STEVE LOPEZ traveled to France to follow the trail of hippie murderer Ira Einhorn. But the story begins in Philadelphia, scene of the crime and home to both its writer and D.A. Richard DiBenedetto, who spent 16 years tracking down his man. Lopez's dozen conversations with DiBenedetto yield a mesmerizing story that takes you inside the mind of the hunter and the hunted. The author of The Sunday Macaroni Club, a fiercely funny crime novel that features a similarly crusading attorney, Lopez pursued his own quest. It took him to Einhorn's lawyers in Paris, the murderer's former...