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...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 his first and middle names) eventually discovered that sometimes you can't escape the past. Sometimes, in fact, it's best to not even...
...McDonald's headquarters, a sprawling, bosky campus in Oak Brook, Ill., outside Chicago. His kitchen, which is on the third floor of the main building, is the sort you would see in the back of house at an expense-account restaurant. It features granite countertops (requested by Coudreaut), a giant Wolf range that cost more than most McDonald's employees make in half a year, and a salamander, a device that professional kitchens use to brown food before serving. (See more about McDonald...
...Semper fidelis," the motto of the Marine Corps, in which Jack served proudly for 37 years, was the motto of his life. He loved his hometown, Johnstown, Pa.; his country; his wife Joyce; his children; and his grandchildren. Giant of the Congress, champion, hero: that was Jack Murtha...
Another emerging strength for the Crimson is the women’s giant slalom, in which Harvard took sixth. Sophomore Caroline McHugh led the way with an 18th-place finish in the event...
...coughed their way through apple tobacco and lamented Washington's 5-cent tax on plastic bags. Down the street, things got rowdier at the District, where the D.C. chapter of the College Republicans hosted a welcome party. "Liberty is contagious," said an underage drinker - you could tell by the giant X's drawn on their hands - between shots of Southern Comfort. "Any time there's less government, there's more freedom." And there were rumors of and invitations to after-parties in various hotel rooms from the Washington Hilton to the home base at the Wardman...