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...Enough? Perhaps it was Susann's unique amalgam of poignancy and chutzpah. Her pores were too big to pass a screen test, she could not sing or dance, she was too short to be a model and, after 25 years of trying, she was nowhere as an actress. She drank heavily and was addicted to pills, and her autistic son had to be institutionalized. When cancer struck, she made a pact with God: "If He would give her twelve more years to prove herself the best-selling authoress in the world, she would settle for that...
...original Harvard men these differences were trivial. They were all wealthy, they all wore those funny looking old outfits that made everyone appear unsightly, and they all drank fine ale at the neighborhood "ye olde shoppe" (for indeed these were carefree days and no one cared much then for spelling...
Davis was at his prayers next evening at dusk when the witch doctor came to speak to the visitor. The witch doctor, Ole Loompirai, sat in a dark, dung- walled hut and drank beer with the visitor and explained the work that he did. The laibon, or witch doctor, spoke in a low, murmurous voice in Maa, sucking frequently on an oversize bottle of Tusker, a faintly smoky Kenya beer brought up in the Land Cruiser from Narok. Moses impassively translated...
...greatest power, the greatest importance. "The cow and the Masai came from the same place in the creation, and they have always been together." The visitor thought of the cattle-raiding warriors, and asked the laibon if it is all right to kill a man. The laibon thought, drank, blew his nose onto the dirt floor and replied, "It is not so bad to kill a man. If you do it and are successful, it is not so bad, because God allowed the man to die. God agreed, and so it happened...
...conceive a child through artificial insemination and carry it on their behalf. The three were brought together through the Infertility Center of New York, a for-profit Manhattan agency. The Sterns chose Whitehead, now 29, after reviewing and rejecting the applications of 300 women. Some drank. Some smoked cigarettes or marijuana. Some just did not look the part. The Sterns wanted a candidate "who might have looked like us," said Elizabeth Stern...