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Last month Reichert's journey through hell seemed to come to an end. On April 15, King County prosecutor Norm Maleng announced that he will seek the death penalty in the prosecution of Gary Leon Ridgway, 53, a married man who worked in a local truck-manufacturing plant. He was arrested last November for four of the Green River murders. He is accused of killing Chapman, Hinds and Mills, as well as Carol Christensen, whose body was discovered...
Literary biographer Leon Edel used to keep a small painting by Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant hanging just inside the doorway of his home office in Honolulu. "Grant painted that when he was 90," Edel, then 72, told an interviewer. "I keep it there to remind myself that a man can be productive...
When book editor Herman Gollob finally put down his blue pencil in 1995--having spent more than 35 years polishing the works of such authors as Donald Barthelme, James Clavell, Arthur Hailey, Alex Haley, Bill Moyers and Leon Uris--he had the usual fuzzy plans for retirement. He imagined, as many of us do, that he would simply dive into the pile of books he had never read, the videos he had never watched, the CDs he had never heard...
...August 6, Crown will publish "American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America," by Leon Wynter. PW is intrigued. "Making an indisputable if sometimes obvious case for non-white influence on American culture, Wynter, an NPR commentator and former WSJ columnist, here joins a chorus chronicling the dissolution of America's once-clear racial delineations into a 'transracial culture'...The downside of 'transracialism' is 'the steady erosion of black identity as the organizing principle for community development,' but Wynter concludes that 'the future is not about black people leading black people [but] about black people leading...
...wasn't a liar. I pay you a C-and-a-half where you, you plant big lies about me and the club all over the map... [But] you are a personal liar too, because ya don't do the work that I pay ya for." - Joe Robard (Joseph Leon) in the film "Sweet Smell of Success...