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...League should not be fooled by the center fielder’s relaxed grin and laid-back attitude—behind the persona lies a strong outfielder and an even stronger hitter, waiting to catch the rest of the league back on its heels...
...Ph.D. on gay and lesbian historical fiction. Her associated research into London's colorful demimonde of music halls and vaudeville led directly to her first novel, Tipping the Velvet (1998), a picaresque romp - and an unabashedly lesbian love story. "Writing it was a breeze," she recalls with a grin. "I wrote it in about 18 months, right after I finished my Ph.D." Her second novel, Affinity, followed in 1999, delving into the 19th century worlds of spiritualism and women's prisons, and then Fingersmith, the fiendishly clever appropriation of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, in 2003. All three have...
...outside Baghdad. This is a favorite route for insurgents streaming in from Fallujah. As the troops load into their humvees, Sergeant Lenore Swenson, 25, from Colorado Springs, Colo., who dreams of leaving the Army someday and buying a horse ranch, tucks her flaxen hair under her helmet. Her friendly grin vanishes beneath a black fire-retardant mask with goggles. She trained as a driver, but her superiors switched her to gunner. "We need maturity behind the gun," says squad leader Darren Horve...
...debts of $5,000 incurred by her two sons, both of whom were killed in a Bangkok traffic accident: "I asked him, 'Can you help me repay? Can you help with my grandchildren's schooling?' He said he could." He also said he would give her a cow. A grin spreads across Ouan's weathered face. Thaksin is beautiful, she says. "I want him to be Prime Minister forever...
...earned money looms large in their mythology. He has even been given a name: Sancho. Taking a break from sodding a lawn in the Hampton town of Springs, a worker named Neftalí jokes that he has to wire some money to Mexico that weekend because, he says with a grin, "Sancho needs new shoes...