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Although Epps arrived at the College as a young man, he is now the longest-standing resident of University Hall. "I still feel very young, but I'm realizing that I've forgotten more history than most people know," says Epps. "I like being the elder statesman...
...juvenile delinquent who is the only boy with an interest in her, demonstrates it by threatening rape. When she responds in kind to a spitball attack, she almost puts a teacher's eye out. Things are scarcely better at home: Dad is passive, Mom is aggressive; her elder brother is a computer nerd and the leader of a hopeless garage band; her little sister is a tattletale in a tutu, meanly waltzing off with such love as can survive in the cold climate of split-level suburbia...
Bill Clinton hadn't believed Dole was resigning until he heard it himself from Dole by phone. The official White House response was muted, gracious; Clinton advisers treated it as a bittersweet retirement party for a distinguished elder statesman. Behind the scenes, however, they cast it as an act of desperation by the loser in the battle for Pennsylvania Avenue. "It affects our plans not a whit," says senior adviser George Stephanopoulos. They know Dole will get a bump in the polls and a push from the press. "The press will be determined to give Dole this moment to tighten...
...friendly and progressive as the New Deal. Telephone families often ran three generations deep. You couldn't blame them for howling; they knew a good thing was ending. Even today AT&T offers a menu of programs that would make any worker's wish list, such as child- and elder-care resource referral services, leaves of absence for parents of newborns and the newly adopted, as well as time off for family care...
...best reflected by Daugherty's dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That's not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder Daugherty, "I'm goin' someplace else." Fiction is full of men and women who can be larger than life. In his best novel so far, Kennedy gives us "splendid nobodies" who are larger than death...