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...time the Gilberts' dog found my elbow three days later and brought it home with a telling corn husk attached to it, Mr. Harvey had closed it up. I was in transit during this. I didn't get to see him sweat it out, remove the wood reinforcement, bag any evidence along with my body parts, except that elbow. By the time I popped up with enough wherewithal to look down at the goings-on on Earth, I was more concerned with my family than anything else...
...mystery, part ghost story, Alice Sebold's first novel (she's also the author of a memoir, Lucky) is the tale of an ordinary girl who is raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing--a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill--and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops...
...World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles boyishly: "Street boxing." Street boxing? "In college...
...Mexican joints). He monitors everything from airport decor (blue terrazzo wins out over carpet) to the number of public-address announcements. Pasta warmers and $330 wine-bottle openers don't rate even a question from Bethune, but he can wax enthusiastic over bigger luggage bins and more elbow room in the cabin. "Come back and look at this," he says eagerly, pointing out that 9 of every 10 seats on the new 767 are on an aisle or a window. "We found out customers would rather have an empty center seat" than have more leg room, he says...
Last year, the Boston Red Sox selected the Topsfield, Mass., product in the June draft, but not until the 10th round. Leading up to the draft, Crockett had been projected to go as high as the 53rd overall pick. The draft-day freefall likely stemmed from concern over an elbow injury that Crockett had suffered the previous fall...