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...exactly. This April the two celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in New York, where Allen, 57, is pastor of a Methodist congregation and Griffiths, now Lynne Allen, 54, a career coach, regularly attends services at her husband's church. Before they reconnected, the two hadn't been in touch for more than 20 years when she tracked him down through the Yale alumni office...
...epilogue to Hav, "an octogenarian lady in Iowa, saw my little book as allegory." The new allegory helpfully reprints the entire 200-odd-page original and proceeds smoothly to its slightly shorter sequel, subtitled Hav of the Myrmidons, a reference to the state's new cultlike leadership. "I hadn't planned to do another novel," says Morris from her home in the Welsh village of Llanystumdwy, where she has just said goodbye to a group of admirers from Canada's Yukon Territory. ("We get a lot of visitors up here, especially in the summer.") But the World Trade Center attack...
...change affected the writing. "There must be a difference, though not in my style. I once went back over all my work to see if the style had changed, and it wasn't apparent that it had. But I'd be a very boring writer if I hadn't become a woman. It has enriched my writing." Morris' writing sprawls from book-length essays on the meaning of place (Venice, Wales, O Canada!, Manhattan '45) to serious works of history (notably the Pax Britannica trilogy, an ambitious three-part work on the fall of the British Empire) to a nonstop...
...trained surgeons there spend $100,000 a year on medical liability insurance? If malpractice occurs, can patients win enormous damage awards? Are local attorneys allowed to enter in a business-type contingency-fees partnership with a client, rather than charge ethical fees as all other professionals do? If I hadn't had to pay a fortune for professional insurance, I would have neither practiced the customary (but expensive) "defensive medicine" nor charged the fees I did. And I would have slept much better during my off-call nights. By the way, how do you say ambulance chaser in Hindi...
...huge-if brief-sense of relief about finally taking out the symbolic and logistical heart of the Iraqi insurgency. In part, that is because the small, covert, 12-man teams of U.S. special forces have been chasing Zarqawi for years. "Every time I heard somebody complain we hadn't got Zarqawi yet, I had to grit my teeth," said a Pentagon official, "because I knew we had multiple teams out every single night for years, building intelligence networks, risking their lives, and several times coming close...