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...Writing is writing. Each time you up the pen, you're confronting a problem," he says, slipping into his professorial mode long enough to explain that for him, every genre suffers from the same problem: how to convey your own vision of events, whether actual or fictional, to an audience. The individual nature of writing means that no two people choose to convey something the same way. More advice follows...
...individual. And the fact that Mitby had received a particularly odious e-mail from a board member of the BGLTSA suggests that extremists within the gay rights movement may be responsible for one or more of these vicious attacks. We at Peninsula have fought out battles with the pen, but have been answered with a rhetorical sword. This campaign of ideological genocide, however, shall not succeed for Peninsula is committed, now more that ever, to spreading the simple message of "Faith, Family and Freedom...
...federal ministries, agencies and departments also got pink slips . Under the decree, which provided no details, some ministries will be reorganized, while others will be scrapped entirely. While unique in its scope, the presidential decree has a familiar ring to it. Whenever criticism starts to mount, the Yel tsin pen starts scribbling, canning ministers deemed "responsible" for Russia's woes. Chubais himself took the blame in an early round. It remains to be seen whether Yeltsin's new government will prove any more adept at tackling the country's pressing problems: growing mafia influence, widespread government corruption, unpaid salaries...
...with some of the palace's more portable treasures. Witnesses say the sacks were put into vehicles with tinted glass--and taken out of the palace at night along with the suddenly quiescent leader. The Quito daily newspaper Hoy has reported that along with the money, a historical gold pen is missing from the president's desk. Gone, too, is the ebony-and-gold staff that is Ecuador's symbol of presidential power. Palace police guard Miguel Lara has told investigators that he made the $3 million withdrawal in 11 billion sucres, the national currency...
...dealing with his most productive fund raisers, Gore can be as attentive as a social director at a vacation spa. Alan Kessler, a lawyer from Philadelphia who helped raise $5.5 million last year, is practically a pen pal. When Kessler's wife last gave birth, there was a congratulatory phone call from Gore. When his son was recovering from knee surgery, there was a note. Another note marked the Bas Mitzvah of Kessler's daughter. And when her ninth-grade class visited Washington, Gore arranged a tour of the White House and posed for a group photo...