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...oldest stories in literature: a boy goes forth into the world, forsaking his past, only to return home as a man and discover that it was where he was always meant to be. And so it was for Joe Hill. After years of getting nowhere peddling middlebrow literary fiction ("stories about divorce and children trying to figure out their parents," he calls them today), Hill began to write tales of murderers, evil spirits and giant bugs--the kinds of subject matter better associated with his father Stephen King. And like the heroes of such stories, Hill (who writes under...
...matchup promises to be intense. In addition to the historic nature of the game, both teams hope to put forth a strong finish to the season and improve conference rankings before the playoffs...
...quad. It's been a hot topic among skating fans this entire week - this entire season, really - as the arguments go back and forth over whether a quadruple jump of any kind is necessary in the men's program or amounts to nothing but showboating. Lysacek decided, coming into Vancouver, not to include one in his program; he tried it at the U.S. nationals in January and fell. But he's the only skater among the top competitors who made that decision, sparking all kinds of buzz among the skating cognoscenti about whether he was pushing the sport back...
...Barry Mizen, whose 16-year-old son Jimmy was murdered in 2008, says his family endured months of personal attacks on a Facebook page that was created after Jimmy's killer, Jake Fahri, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last March. "The words going back and forth were getting really nasty - it was just so undignified," says Mizen, who lives in southeast England. "My children were taking it very personally." Around the same time, taunting messages also started to come from Fahri's Twitter account, including one that said, "Jimmy Mizen was a pathetic loser." "There...
Smaller government is a venerable American philosophy - though one not always consistent with the public's passion for Medicare, farm subsidies, mortgage deductions, aircraft carriers and name-your-favorite-cut-of-pork. And calling forth the spirit of America's tea-dumping colonists in Boston has never been easier than it is now. One irony for Obama is that the Tea Party movement is using his own organizing techniques against him: Meetup.com announcements, Twitter tweets, viral videos, e-mail trees and all the other innovations falling under the politically potent umbrella known as social networking. Indeed, in the online...