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Goetze also felt fortunate just to make it to Nationals, it was her first appearance there because last year's virus hampered her performance at the qualifying Easter, is race. Carswell finished 35th in last year's NCAA championship...
...League bowling is in fact down by almost 50% since 1980, a victim of changing life-styles: longer commutes, an explosion of amusement choices, a shortage of leisure time. "Let's say you used to sign up to bowl every Monday at 6:30 p.m. from Labor Day to Easter, which would be a typical bowling season," says the A.B.C.'s Mark Miller. To day's American doesn't want to do anything every Monday at 6:30 p.m. from Labor Day to Easter...
...according to advance word, 1945 is a work of art compared with To Renew America, which was written in about two weeks. During the congressional Easter recess, ghostwriter Bill Tucker went to Gingrich's home in Marietta, Georgia, and extracted 70,000 words from the Speaker. "He's been saying the same thing since he was 15," says Tucker. "I just had to get him to make it shorter." The book repackages the sayings of Speaker Newt, lectures from his college course and riffs on the Contract with America...
...illusion that its interesting people have been leading autonomous lives and are still, somewhere, doing more of the same. Most readers felt that way about Richard Ford's highly acclaimed novel The Sportswriter (1986), which left its narrator-hero Frank Bascombe in an emotional limbo after a hectic Easter weekend spent trying to accommodate the demands of his job and a new girlfriend. For all his attempts to get on with life, Frank still mourned the death-from Reye's syndrome-of his eldest child Ralph several years earlier, and the divorce from his wife that soon followed...
...coverage of computers and other high technology, and that makes him TIME's chief correspondent in cyberspace. The job has forced him to navigate a bafflingly complex electronic terrain, familiarize himself with mysterious local customs (or "Netiquette") and master a bizarre language featuring such expressions as "cluster geeking," "Easter egging" and "flame baiting." "In many ways," he says, "it is just like being on foreign assignment...