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...matters less to me than it did in the beginning. You write the first book and it's just exciting that the book exists. The only people who talk about your first book are people who like it; no one's going to review a book they've never heard of to say it's bad. You write the second book and everything is different. At first, you'd think, if nobody buys this book, nobody will ever publish me again. Now that I don't worry about that as much, you're kind of writing for yourself. Here...
...your three favorite contemporary writers that people may never have heard...
...joined the ticket. She regards reporters warily and from a distance, except for a brief meet and greet on her campaign plane that was strictly off the record. Onstage, she tells the same teleprompter jokes every day, and her husband Todd laughs at them as if he had never heard them before. Beforehand and afterward, Palin lunges into the crowds, shaking hands in her 3-in. heels. "I'm excited, but I'd like to see her interviewed first," says Republican Kim Ahaus, a middle-aged woman from Lebanon, Ohio, who has not yet been sold on the fairy tale...
...legislature's probe. But Thomas Van Flein, the lawyer she had to hire because the attorney general, Talis Colberg, also called Monegan about Wooten and therefore could be a witness, had Palin take the unusual step this week of filing an ethics complaint - against herself. Ethics complaints are heard by the three-member Personnel Board, whose members are all Palin appointees, and Van Flein has claimed that the entire legislative investigation should be stopped because it has become a partisan affair. The legislature, however, has refused her calls to stop their investigation in lieu of the ethics complaint...
...Class David Worth, fresh from the U.S. and in his first term as a postgraduate student at Oxford, had barely heard of the Bullingdon Club when in 1988 he was asked to join. Fellow students were impressed: founded in the 18th century, the venerable dining association confers membership to its ultra-exclusive ranks by invitation only. At his Bullingdon debut, Worth, wearing the distinctive tailcoat with ivory lapels that is required for all Bullingdon functions, caught a boat to Cliveden, a stately home turned luxury hotel. It was on board that he encountered Cameron. "There was a surreal Brideshead Regurgitated...