Word: mailers
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...popped a little plastic figurine. “Two days later,” says Romatowski, “one of them showed up in [Riley’s] university mailbox.” Romatowski declined to say if she was the mysterious mailer. When asked how HSA found out about her collection of now dozens of the small mermaids and elephants, Riley pled ignorance. But she hopes that the donations keep coming. “We’re saving them forever,” she says, but quickly recants. “We might recycle them, because recycling...
...have a national issue." At least, that's his hope. Most of the Republicans in tough races who distance themselves from Bush do so subtly, by not inviting him in to campaign, for instance. Not so Mike Fitzpatrick, a Representative facing stiff opposition in Philadelphia, who sent out a mailer last month blaring "Mike Fitzpatrick to President Bush: 'America needs a better, smarter plan in Iraq...
...THRILLER. Part of my setting up shop was the idea that I should produce a book a year--that this was a better way to run being a writer than to think of yourself as a kind of a priest-prophet, the way American writers like Norman Mailer--the esteemed Norman Mailer--did. Now, with modern medicine, and modern Protestant lifestyle, I've lived long enough that the books keep coming--time to write a novel, time to write a novel. So you look for things that will amuse you and in some way challenge you. A different world...
...Like De Tocqueville, Lévy encounters many of the leading lights of the day: George W. Bush ("a cunning child"), Hillary Clinton (driven by the Monica Lewinsky affair, he implausibly surmises), Barack Obama (impressive in every way), Sharon Stone (angry at Bush), Warren Beatty ("intelligent and precise"), Norman Mailer (at 82, "eyes fixed on eternity"), Samuel Huntington (whose Hispanophobia alarms him) and Woody Allen who, when Lévy gets personal, snaps, "She's not my daughter." Lévy also gets personal with ordinary Americans, who charm him with their politeness, pragmatism and, on occasion, intelligence. He marvels...
...Advocate has had T.S. Eliot, Theodore Roosevelt, and Norman Mailer. The Crimson has had FDR, JFK, Caspar Weinberger, etc. The Lampoon has had John Updike and even Elmer the Custodian. Past Presidents and Editors of the Yearbook include names such as George Feeney, Edward Kenyon, Roxane Harvey, Lee Smith, and Ken Meister—significant in their own right but not particularly etched in Harvard lore,” an excerpt from the yearbook’s website reads...