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College recruitment brochures typically look like Benetton ads. Come to our school, they seem to proclaim, and you'll learn as much from your multicolored classmates as you will from your professors. In most cases this is a fiction. Colleges tend to do a poor job of attracting minority students, and it's rare to see genuine interaction among different groups. If you were to visit Seattle Central Community College, however, you might just find a 40-year-old Hispanic mom designing computer software with a lanky, blond, 24-year-old snowboarder. Or maybe you will run into Gil Reynosa...
...HANG LOOSE: PW is overwhelmed by "Fred & Edie" by Jill Dawson (Welcome Rain; September), giving it a starred review. "Dawson?s third novel strikingly and elegantly blends fact and fiction in a reimagining of the events surrounding the spectacular 1922 London trial of Edith Thompson and her lover, Frederick Bywaters, who were convicted and hanged for murdering Edith?s husband, Percy...Gripping, surprising and beautiful. FORECAST: This title was a finalist for the Whitbread Prize; a film (?Another Life?) based on the same incidents premiered in the U.K. and is scheduled for U.S. release this year. Though set 80 years...
DIED. SIR FRED HOYLE, 86, eminent but irascible astronomer who coined the term Big Bang theory to distinguish it, derisively, from his own belief that the universe was infinite in time and space; in Bournemouth, England. A popular science-fiction novelist (The Black Cloud, 1957) and former BBC radio broadcaster, Hoyle was best known for his monumental 1957 paper on the origins of elements, for which--to his annoyance--he was passed over for a Nobel Prize...
...This is the first known instance of paid product placement in the work of a highly regarded fiction writer. The hilariously sinister precedent opens all kinds of doors...
...behind all that lip gloss. Its cachet is gold-plated: royal country houses are equipped with Agas, Mel Gibson is a fan, and Tony Blair used to have an Aga before moving to No. 10 Downing Street. The stove has even given its name to a genre of contemporary fiction: "Aga sagas" are about modern families whose lives ebb and flow through Aga-centered kitchens...