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...nominee. And each knows that the election's first contest is the money primary. Back when George W. Bush was just a first-term Texas Governor with a famous last name, his lineup of $100,000 fund raisers made him the G.O.P. front runner--a year before anyone in Iowa had a chance to caucus. In 2004 money could matter more than ever because the primaries will be concentrated at the beginning of the election calendar, forcing candidates to campaign nationwide from the start. And the nominee will need a bigger donor base, because the new campaign-finance law forbids...
DIED. STANLEY LLOYD GREIGG, 71, former Iowa Congressman who filed the criminal complaint that sparked the Watergate investigation; of a heart attack; in Roanoke, Va. As then deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Greigg was called in by Washington police on June 17, 1972, to view a lineup of the five Watergate burglars...
...authors, who know each other from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, use "artifacts" of their romantic relationships to decorate the cookbook in colorful collages. Says Thisbe, "Erin and I both are total pack rats, and keep everything." Readers are rewarded with recipes for "Murray Dinkel's Egg Salad" and "Aaron's Post-Peace Corps Tom Yum Goong," as well as the story of the relationships. Thisbe admits that the book is "creative nonfiction": some of the boyfriends are composites, and others have had their identities blurred. But there are guys who are ready for another edition, says Thisbe, whose novel...
...heroes of these books aren't the cynical, world-weary salonistas of The Sun Also Rises. They're innocents abroad, naive Candides hungry for an education, spiritual or otherwise. Take the character named Gurney, protagonist of John Beckman's The Winter Zoo. Gurney abandons his pregnant girlfriend in an Iowa delivery room and flees to Cracow to join his cousin Jane. Jane turns out to be a Mephistophelean temptress of the first order, and she schools Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze...
Owing to an unusual brain disorder, SM046 has a defective amygdala. As a result, her behavior is abnormal in a very particular way. When scientists at the University of Iowa show SM046 pictures of a series of faces, she has no trouble picking out those that are happy, sad or angry. But if the face is displaying fear, she cannot recognize the feeling. She identifies it as a face expressing some intense emotion, but that is all. Her unusual condition strongly suggests that even in Homo sapiens, fear takes hold in the amygdala...