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Another chapter is hurtling toward what its author hopes will be a breathtaking close. Storm clouds are gathering, foreshadows lengthening. You are firmly in the grip of what the book jacket avers is "Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror." Your eye skips to the bottom of the page, and this is what you read...
...gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively gave his new jacket to a derelict in a Montparnasse bar--who tried to relieve the suffering of others because he felt his own so deeply...
Certainly anyone willing to pay the $1,700 price tag for such compact transport might easily see the value of the $319 MemBrain Denali jacket. The lightweight parka, made by Marmot of Santa Rosa, California, adjusts to the wearer's activity level: if one is, say, paddling briskly in the rain, strands of temperature-sensitive molecules expand to let vapor escape--then tighten up to trap body heat and prevent the chills when the canoer takes a break...
...became angry, lonely and, most important to skinhead recruiters, vulnerable. "I needed to lash out," he explains. "They look for young, angry kids who need a family." He dropped out of school and began meeting skinheads hanging around the punk-rock scene. The trappings--bomber jacket, shaved head and steel-toed Dr. Martens boots--and hard-line beliefs soon followed. "These were good guys, I thought," he says now. "I thought I was being patriotic. We would drink and fight, try to clean up America that way." At one party he attacked a white youth who was dating a black...
...next day Pollard and Johnson met at a hotel adjacent to Olympic Stadium and talked privately for 15 minutes. Johnson, who is about to reap endorsement bounty, graciously accepted an old warmup jacket from Pollard. Some things are priceless...