Word: pauls
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...unnamed narrator is a 22-year-old Englishman studying for an advanced degree in French literature at Cambridge. He is working on a thesis about the novels of a writer named Paul Michel, who emerged in the 1960s as "the wild boy of his generation." The narrator is more interested in Michel's cool, classically restrained fiction than in his public role as an outspoken homosexual. In fact, the narrator seems unaware of the fate of the real Paul Michel until his Cambridge girlfriend tells him that Michel was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1984 and has been held...
Before he quite knows what has hit him, Duncker's hero finds himself in Paris, "having been chosen for reasons I did not understand" to rescue Michel from his captivity. Eventually he succeeds, and then succumbs to the confusion of author with text: "Paul Michel and the hidden drama lived in his texts were utterly and terribly fused...
...very far. By the way, with the exception of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart (No. 14), everyone on the list ahead of Gates made most or all of his fortune before there was an income tax. Other living Americans on the list: Warren Buffett (39), John Kluge (70), Paul Allen (75), Sumner Redstone (87) and Ron Perelman...
...Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...interviews with witnesses and hundreds of documents for McVeigh and co-defendant Terry Nichols by breaking into the defense's computer files. For its part, the Morning News stood by its story and maintains that it has nothing to retract. "We did not break any laws," News attorney Paul Watler said. "We have no fear of criminal repercussions...