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Novelist Thomas Berger responds to continuing fascination with the American West by distilling its sprawling, general history into the essence of this well-knit chronicle, Berger should be commended for his painstaking research, which allows him, through our personal tour-guide Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that...
Another stood around 5'6" and wore a beige jacket, the victims said. The third assailant was a white male who wore a black jacket, black knit cap and red sweatshirt, they said...
...student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework in the center of campus, and at the University of California at Santa Barbara, they threw a mock fashion show, lecturing on sweatshops while parading down the catwalk...
...Malenfant puts it, "The problem with all testing is that it kind of depends on where the person is starting out. If I can already knit, I can probably make Argyle socks more quickly," she says...
...June 26 is Why Does This Office Smell Bad? Day. While the homeless go ignored, almost 28.5 million Americans bought their dogs Christmas presents last year. A woman I know throws her dogs a Bar Mitzvah every year. That's not even correct on a religious level. People knit their dogs things. Now I've never knitted anything, but it looks like a pretty serious endeavor. If getting married meant knitting something instead of buying a ring, there would be even more out-of-wedlock births...