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Which is, in fact, exactly what he did. Timequake was scheduled for publication some years ago, but Vonnegut pulled the plug just before the book went to press. His reason, as he explained at the Brattle Theatre Tuesday night, was that he "didn't know what the hell it was about." Suddenly one book short of a three-book contract, Vonnegut spent the next few years overhauling the novel, drastically paring down the original "temporal anomaly" plot and filling the void with personal remembrances and ruminations...
...decades the state legislature tried to plug the gap with economic incentives. It offered scholarships to the state's only medical school, in Kansas City. It forgave hundreds of thousands of dollars in educational loans. But it was always the same story: no matter how generous the financial package, no matter how idealistic the students, after six or more years of advanced medical training, most newly minted doctors dropped any thought of hanging out a shingle on the prairie...
Some National Security Council aides are grumbling that they'd like to pull the plug on the twice-a-year meetings AL GORE has with Russian Premier VIKTOR CHERNOMYRDIN. The sessions, they say, have lately produced few results. Chernomyrdin has dropped in the Kremlin pecking order and can no longer deliver much. But the Veep, who's in Russia this week for his ninth Gore-Chernomyrdin commission meeting, is still high on the confabs. In past get-togethers Gore has hammered out agreements on unglamorous issues other politicians avoid, like environmental cleanup and health-care exchanges. This week's meeting...
...casinos. With this move, Wilson seems eager to join the long, list of government officials who have blocked Native Americans' attempts to sustain themselves. In the mighty modern success story of Indian video gaming, Wilson seems willing to call out the cavalry to do nothing more than pull the plug, betraying promises to America's first citizens in the process...
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