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...says. "I decided I was going off to write what I wanted." That was The Pursuit of Happiness, a sweeping love story set in postwar New York City. No U.S. publisher would touch it, but it thrived overseas, selling 350,000 copies in the U.K. alone. Kennedy has the gift--or perhaps curse--of transcending genres. His thrillers are romantic, his romances thrilling, and all of them bristle with literary references and big questions about love and life. Consider The Woman in the Fifth. Harry Ricks, an American academic, loses his job and his marriage over a disastrous fling with...
...only Texan to serve as his state's chief justice, attorney general and secretary of state, but John Hill was also its first Democrat in more than a century to lose an election for Governor (in 1978, to opponent William Clements). Hill was a Big Hat Texan with a gift for hyperbole whose last role was head of the Texas Lottery Commission...
...Senate was beginning debate, yet again, on motions to start a withdrawal from Iraq. But George W. Bush has demonstrated only an intermittent relationship with reality about Iraq. He has trotted out the same old ironclad abstractions--"Our enemies will stop at nothing ..." and "Freedom is God's gift to man"--for four years. Recently, in his desperation, starting with his speech at the Naval War College on June 28, he has been telling an outright lie, and he repeated it now, awkwardly, in Cleveland: "The same people that attacked us on September the 11th is the crowd that...
...faith have gone wrong in the past, what they have done right and where they see it going in the future," says his faith-outreach adviser, Joshua DuBois. Speeches on everything from the budget to immigration to stem-cell research are carefully marinated in Scripture. "Science is a gift of God to all of us," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a debate on increased embryo-research funding, "and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure...
...Mindlessly flipping through the postcards to see if there was something worth sending home, I discovered that these postcards had already been sent home. Unlike the overpriced-faux-war-era postcards sold throughout the rest of the town in gift shops and boulangeries, some of these postcards actually dated back before WWI (with the postage stamp to prove it). Many bore the fast, scrawled messages written from soldiers to their mothers, brothers and lovers, briefly, and hopefully, describing life on the front. I stood mesmerized, reading postcard after postcard. I struggled through, first, the messy, smudged handwriting, second, my mediocre...