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...This passion for the eclectic has marked the red-headed, diminutive Orlean’s career. Although she got her start profiling 80s pop sensations like Tiffany for Rolling Stone and Vogue, she eventually realized that it wasn’t for her. “I’m just not that interested in celebrities,” Orlean admits. Instead she turned to the kind of subjects that are “not at all expected”—and found her niche...
...candidates continue to drop out of the race this year, they leave behind a host of diehard supporters who have devoted their time and passion to a suddenly defunct campaign...
DIED. M.M. KAYE, 95, author whose 1978 historical novel, The Far Pavilions, was sometimes likened to Gone With the Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in preindependence India, she dabbled in amateur theater, but her passion was writing. Her richly detailed tale of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls in love with an Indian princess became an international best seller and a high-profile hbo miniseries...
...which is why voters don't quite know what to make of her. To some, she brings a badly needed dose of authenticity and passion to a candidate who struggles to convey both. "I don't understand Kerry, but I'm nuts about her, because she talks about health care and children's issues," says Eileen Waterman, 57, a nurse in Albuquerque, N.M. To others, she embodies everything that doesn't work about Kerry. Baer Woodrum, who runs a Shoney's in Aiken, S.C., says he can't imagine Kerry doing well in this Tuesday's primary, in part because...
...only real reason to do something is passion,” she said...