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...Libby Eynon, I leave an extra trophy case for this year's squash awards, a U-Haul truck to carry them away, and an in-home squash court so that she can continue to amaze all those who watch her play. She went from 7th nationally to 5th to 3rd and finally 1st this year. She also led Harvard to an Ivy League and national championship, so I guess a portion of her trophy case should be left here for all to gaze...
Mailer admirably settled in years ago for the literary long haul. Whatever momentary noise he made as the Tasmanian devil of American letters (when he would go dervishing through the culture, talking tough, chewing the furniture), his 27 books have drawn a permanent and distinctive trajectory. His obsessions usually lead back into the continuum of the 1950s and '60s, into the universe of the cold war, of media metastasis and dangerous fame, of glamorous, conspiratorial violence, of the garish existential dreads and lusts (to use the old hyperthyroid Mailer vocabulary) that it has been his gift to conjure...
...never saw a U-Haul attached to a hearse,"Jackson said to the audience's laughter...
...Texas haul is also made up of money mostly owed to welfare mothers. The joint state/federal enforcement program was originally founded, in part, to defray the costs of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the states can still use the money they collect in welfare cases for that purpose. Funds recovered on behalf of nonwelfare mothers, however, simply get passed on to them. The result, says Sue Anderson, a Minnesotan who spent years trying to collect from her ex, is "if you have any sort of income, [the states] don't give you the time of day." Some...
...insurance policies to cover the amounts of their loans-had folded and settled 45 cases out of court for $4.1 million. By Beasley standards they got off light: if it had gone to the Barbour County jury, God knows the size of the wheelbarrow they would have needed to haul away the verdict money...