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...than 100 manuscripts in June to help clear its debt. And many other houses have quietly been pruning their lists. "I've been publishing for 18 years," says Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the upcoming The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. "Every time something happens, people say to me, 'It's a good thing you came in when you did.' But publishing is always in turmoil...
...fortunate that such an incompetent politician who has no other reason for being in Congress besides his name, has decided to call it quits," said Daniel P. Berwick '01, who hails from Newton, Mass...
Hackey Sack: Tres cool about three years ago, it's still good for impressing a bunch of bored teenagers from Newton and Chestnut Hill...
...eerie sensation to read Jane Smiley's prankish new novel, set in pre-Civil War Kansas, after campaigning with the fiery abolitionist John Brown through the same time and terrain in Russell Banks' thunderous epic Cloudsplitter. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Knopf; 448 pages; $26) follows Lidie, a sturdy young Illinois bride, to the dust-blown outpost of Lawrence, Kans., in the tumultuous year of 1855. Lawrence is a raw, ill-favored roost of newly arrived Free Soil settlers, jostled by drunken proslave irregulars from Missouri and protected, mostly with words, by gassy politicians. John Brown...
Upon returning from break, I began investigating PDA-type options, including the Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 and the new handled PCs that run a light version of Windows 95 dubbed Windows CE. These WinCE machines cost about $1,000 and run "pocket" versions of popular Microsoft software such as Word and Schedule...