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Someone with the pen name Christina Kallilli, who describes herself as a high school sophomore from Boston, wrote this breathless fiction, and she wants the world to read it. Well, a certain kind of world, anyway: fellow members of a literary subculture that exploded online in recent years and is especially flourishing at www.fanfiction.net Just in the past 18 months or so, FFN, which launched in late 1998, has attracted tens of thousands of teenagers who like to read and write fan fiction--stories based on celebrities (such as JC from boy band 'N Sync) or popular characters from literature...
...move. But I quickly got used to it, and now it feels very natural. I don't even think about it. It has become part of me and made me more independent." Thanks to the Freehand implant, Holgersen can now hold a cup, lift a fork and grasp a pen, actions he was previously unable to perform...
Such projects usually become pariahs. No one wants to work on them because everyone doubts they'll ever make it to the cinema. But Hallström pushed, getting Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat) to pen a new script and recruiting an A-list cast. Kevin Spacey, who plays Quoyle, said Hallström was "the right kind of director to capture what was very difficult to put on film." Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore, who signed on as Quoyle's love interests, both praised the freedom Hallström gives actors. "I don't impose performances," he says...
Highlights from the silent auction were autographed pieces of political memorabilia, including a vice presidential desk set and presidential pen from the Clinton White House, a Florida butterfly ballot from the 2000 Presidential election, signed by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and a signed picture of Al Gore ’69 and his wife, Tipper, sharing a kiss at the Democratic National Convention...
...After Robert Byrd broke the ice in a hearing Wednesday by questioning the war's price tag, Majority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Thursday that the U.S. must add two more prisoners to its X-Ray pen - Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden - "or we will have failed." Trent Lott, through his spokesman, was very upset; Bush, through his, played it cooler, with Ari Fleischer drily informing reporters Thursday that "individuals are free to focus on any one person if they think that's the best way to conduct foreign policy. That's a different approach than the president...