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...came up with the story for your first book, Twilight, in a dream. From there, how did you come up with the characters? -Theresa Kolberg, PHOENIXI think you only get one dream like that in a lifetime, and it was all I needed. Once I unlocked the door, there were a lot of stories waiting to get out. Apparently, there are enough people in my head to supply me for a while...
...characters you wrote about based on any real-life people? Did anyone in your life influence the personalities of the characters? -Theresa Kolberg, PhoenixEvery now and then there will be a character that is a combination of people I knew - some of the girls in Bella's high school definitely reflect people I knew at that stage in my life - but for the most part, they come out of nowhere. It's amazing, some of the characters are so completely rounded and as soon as I think of them, I know everything about them. And then there are others that...
...Virtually every family counts at least one member out of work, and the expectation of ever finding a decent job is slim. The institutions for transmitting values have been upended. The relationship between adults and adolescents has been shaken by the rapid shift from communism to capitalism. Explains Britta Kolberg, a social worker in east Berlin schools: "Kids see parents who were convinced socialists and are now 100% supporters of the new society. They have turned around so completely that there is a general mistrust of grownups...
...also cost a lot of extra money: American firms spend $250 million annually just to teach workers the three Rs. "Because of the failure of our education system to produce graduates who can work at world-class levels, we have a national economic problem on our hands," says William Kolberg, president of the National Alliance of Business, a Washington-based education and policy group...
Harvard was a limited partner in the largest LBO ever--the Kravis, Kolberg and Roberts takeover of RJR-Nabisco--and Lewis said that buyout was "very well conceived...