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...convicted of murder, he successfully fought for his own execution; Norman Mailer wrote about Gary's final months of life in his 1979 fact-based novel The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shot in the Heart is a more personal story, as Mikal Gilmore searches for insight into the origin of evil by examining his family -- his mother's shattered Mormon faith, his father's secret criminal past. Both Gilmore parents, haunted by their past, took their frustrations out on their children, dooming them to lives of anger and abuse as well. Mikal quotes Gary as saying...
...There are plenty of cartoonists satirizing the Washington political scene. But none do it with the singular blend of whimsy and insight of Mark Alan Stamaty, whose cartoon strip Washingtoon has appeared in scores of newspapers across the country for more than a decade. With this issue, Stamaty brings Washingtoon exclusively to TIME, where it will appear each week in the Chronicles section. "Mark's arrival is a natural step for us," says Chronicles editor Bruce Handy. "The section already looks at news from a 90 degrees angle. And TIME has long nurtured the individual voices of essayists and columnists...
...students of the University, the campaign offers insight about how the different parts of Harvard will cooperate in the near future...
Aguilar says the dean is searching for the familiar in how he designs the School. The idea for the chapel's shape comes from the dean's childhood, Aguilar says. And it lends insight into a man who hates wasting time and is so quick to take the initiative--Whether reforming the Business School curriculum or engineering a hospital merger--that he never lets himself be backed into a corner...
Because running a college newspaper editorial page, in addition to making you the darling of compulsive letter writers everywhere and rendering you a bleary-eyed vet of intraextracurricular-activity politics, gives you sharpened vision and brilliant insight. Not to toot my own horn, but I now have what it takes to solve the great problems of our time...