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...children. Well before the jury spoke, McGinniss had come to believe his man was guilty. But to protect the book contract he had to keep his subject happy, and he did so, not just by concealing opinions but also by telling overt lies. MacDonald sued, and after a hung jury, McGinniss and his publisher settled, reportedly for $350,000. More humiliation came when Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker detailed McGinniss's indiscretions in a 1989 article, quoting liberally from his letters to MacDonald, including gushing affirmations of belief in his innocence, sleazy attempts to muscle out competing writers...
...typical awards ceremony: Distinguished scholars made emphatic speeches, large medals were hung around honorees' necks and a woman in red kept running in with a policeman, shouting, "That's him! That man is the father of my child! Stop...
...home, I phoned the escort service again, because I wanted to continue my discussion with the dispatcher. I reminded her that I had just been talking with her from Harvard Square. When I asked for her name, she hung up on me. I then called the campus police and asked to speak to the person who supervised the escort service...
...tried to kill herself many times in the course of her adult life. Or anyway, she had a long flirtation with death by overdose. She carried a virtual pharmacy around in her pocketbook. She drenched herself with alcohol. As she wrote in an early poem, "the odor of death hung in the air/ like rotting potatoes." She checked in and out of sanitariums. Doctors tried to minister to her hysteria, depression, anorexia, insomnia, wildly alternating moods, lacerating rages, trances, fugue states, terrible confusions, bouts of self-disgust...
...Kerrey's" is a traditional, family-style eatery. Very...Nebraskan. No nouvelle cuisine. No soft, chic pink neon lighting. This is the Corn Belt. We like juicy 100% real beef burgers and vintage Cornhusker football memora-bilia hung on the walls for ambience...