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...pity or sensationalism. The first time he panicked throughout the long ordeal, he writes, was when he had to rush his pregnant sister to a hospital three days after their bewildered arrival in Washington. Assisted in that sudden release and encouraged to learn English by British Poet-Journalist James Fenton, whom he had met in Phnom Penh, the author, now 29, gets it all down with a straightforward vividness that chills the bones. / His portrait of Cambodia lost would in any circumstances be vital anthropology; in the light of what came after, however, it also assumes the weight of almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghost Stories Came True: CAMBODIAN WITNESS | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

CARP representative Sean Fenton, a BC sophomore, is heading the efforts to bring the "moonies" to BC. Fenton will meet with BC administrators next week to discuss the creation of a CARP chapter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...parents freaked out when I joined the movement," Fenton told the Heights. "But I've always been close with my family, and I've kept in touch with them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...Mothers Against Drunk Driving, to supply slogans. The organizations, in turn, encourage their supporters to buy the checks and use them for paying bills. A new check commissioned by the National Organization for Women debuted this week. Its message: EQUALITY FOR WOMEN. Message!Check is the creation of Priscilla Fenton, 38, a former Seattle Symphony fund raiser, and Amy Larkin, 31, who once produced financial reports on Wall Street. They have received orders for 3,000 batches, containing 200 checks each, for which they charge $14, or about twice what standard checks cost. For each batch of checks sold, Message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Checks: Get the Message! | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...mother's room. You got drunks like a schoolboy. You made noises like a babi when he looks in the ground for foods." Every misstep of the way, O'Hanlon employs a dry, self-deprecating style that cannot disguise the team's gifts for fresh and arresting description. Fenton calls the black- naped oriole "the flaming youth of the forest, the jeunesse d'or, the jungle glitterati." And O'Hanlon is chillingly adept at describing the river torrent that nearly killed his friend, and at expressing some thoughts about the omnipresence of early death by misadventure: "No wonder the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenhorns into the Heart of Borneo | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

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