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...wonder you never get your homework done, with that awful racket going on day and night. Turn it down this instant...
Then two veteran fossil hunters from the local Afar tribe, exploring near a dry stream bed, spotted something out of place: two pieces of a prehistoric upper jaw that had eroded from a hillside. "The instant we fit the jaw together," says William Kimbel, science director of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California, and a leader of the expedition, "we knew we weren't dealing with an apelike Australopithecus [the scientific name for Lucy...
...Dahlia, L.A. Confidential). The anecdote enhanced his reputation, setting him off from his competitors. How many other toilers in the thriller trade could claim a mother murdered in a crime still unsolved? But My Dark Places (Knopf; 355 pages; $25) rehearses this unhappy history with a lot more than instant publicity in mind. Part memoir, part detective story, part meditation on the kind of men who kill and the women who die at their hands, Ellroy's new book displays a reality more chilling than fiction...
...wasn't really invisible. His public appearances, however, were involuntary, conjurations of Democratic demonology. In that sense, he was everywhere in this election, appearing in what he says were more than 75,000 negative political ads and countless speeches. "Maybe it'll work," he said last month, betraying an instant's doubt before he added, "I don't think...
...this year, Huang quit the Commerce Department to launch into his next career: Democratic fund raiser. He was an instant achiever. By all accounts he brought in more cash and aroused more enthusiasm among Asian Americans than any Democratic presidential candidate before Clinton had ever enjoyed. At a $1,000-a-plate dinner for Asian Americans in Los Angeles last July, Clinton proudly praised Huang for being so good at getting the audience to open its wallets. But on Oct. 18, Huang was suspended from his fund-raising slot after news leaked that he had solicited the $250,000 South...