Word: madison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's a short, gritty novel whose elegant construction calls to mind the way Greg Louganis used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches...
...there was little doubt about where Roosevelt stood. In his last major speech of the campaign, before a teeming crowd in Madison Square Garden, FDR "called the roll" of those who had stood with him and those who had sought to stifle his "bold, persistent experimentation." He spoke out against the "enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering...
...deluded if you think that calling me and other Peninsula staffers "reactionaries" will somehow make our position illegitimate. This great nation was founded by wise reactionaries like James Madison, who wrote the Constitution to protect us against innovative power-mongers and their diseased ideologies, which in our century have led other nations down the road to gas chambers and prison camps. You are wrong if you think that publishing my name and House affiliation will scare me into silence; I am proud to be a patriot and a conservative, and have never made a secret of my political beliefs...
...Maryland 14-0-0 331 5. Portland (OR) 8-0-2 309 6. Nebraska 11-0-0 308 7. Texas A&M 11-1-0 279 8. Santa Clara 9-2-0 275 9. Florida 9-1-0 255 10. Clemson 8-3-1 213 11. Wisc.-Madison 7-2-2 211 12. HARVARD 7-0-0 207 13. Penn State 7-2-2 188 14. Massachusetts 9-0-1 168 15. James Madison 8-2-1 163 16. Cal-Berkeley 8-1-1 161 17. Minnesota 8-3-0 127 18. UNC-Greensboro 9-2-0 121 19. Virginia...
...cares if she's not Her Royal Highness anymore, just so long as she's Her Royal Hereness? PRINCESS DIANA was greeted warmly by a mixture of Madison Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue types on her first major international engagement since the royal divorce, an eating, dancing and shopping spree that raised money for breast-cancer research in Washington. Diana, who called the disease "a great dark enemy stalking women," charmed everyone from diva designer Isaac Mizrahi, who said,"Charles really blew it when he dumped her," to solid soldier Colin Powell, who, after scoring the first dance, opined...