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This week Kent M. Keith ’71 released his first full-length book, Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, published by Penguin Putnam, after a Mother Teresa quotation led him back to his own college-age prose...
...Keith, self-proclaimed “public citizen” and senior vice president for development and communications at the YMCA of Honolulu, took a circuitous route to Penguin Putnam, beginning in mid-September 1997 at a meeting of the Honolulu Rotary Club. Keith was in a rut with his writing. After attending the Maui Writers’ Conference two weeks earlier, he worried that his chances of publishing anything were slim, because he had no “special hook or angle.” Bowing his head at the beginning of the meeting, though, Keith heard his fellow...
Other aspiring writers might have felt crushed about losing ownership of their own work. Not Keith. He rushed to the bookstore and found on the last page of a book about Mother Teresa a poem called “Anyway,” which comprised eight out of his 10 original “commandments.” The book attributed the poem to a sign on the wall of a children’s home in Calcutta where Mother Teresa spent time. “That was the hook…the credibility,” Keith says...
...second baseman Billy Hess and give up a two-run double to Matt Buckmiller before Walsh pulled him in favor of sophomore Jason Brown. Brown was only able to get the Crimson out of the inning after two more runs on a triple by Derek Johnson and a Keith Palmieri sacrifice fly to put the game out of reach...
...Crimson kept chipping away in the fifth thanks to two Columbia errors and its own hustle. Mager ran out a grounder to third and was rewarded when Steve Compton’s throw pulled first baseman Keith Palmieri off the bag. Hale knocked a pitch off Palmieri’s leg on the next at-bat and beat the flip to first. After senior Nick Carter hit into a fielder’s choice to give the Crimson first and third with one out, Mager raced home on a wild pitch...