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...David Lupher, a classics professor at the University of Puget Sound, criticized her over "classics-l," an informal e-mail list of academics, because she was "thanked" in the credits...
...doesn't have to slow down going around curves--of which this route has many. For much of the way, you skirt the shores of the lovely Willamette, Columbia and Toutle rivers. The view gets even more spectacular as you follow the coastline of the vast and misty Puget Sound. So close to the water do you ride that you often feel you're not on a train at all but on a boat, with blue water and skies as far as you can see. While you're being served breakfast or lunch on white linen tablecloths in the dining...
...moments are more emblematic of the quixotic campaign of Bill Bradley than his ride aboard a commuter ferry across Puget Sound on the final day of a poignant effort to win a primary somewhere, anywhere. With one hand clutching a cup of coffee, the other jammed into his pocket, he faced straight ahead like any other harried commuter hoping to get to his office without having to make eye contact so early in the morning...
...shallow adventure novel, nor is it a tale of moral rebirth through a watery baptism. Raban brings along the outdoor experience found in his successful Bad Lands as he embarks on a solitary journey along the Inside Passage, a route that starts from the yuppie lakefront properties of Puget Sound and winds through an archipelago up to Juneau, Alaska. Raban, a British chap from Seattle, desires to "meditate on the sea, at the sea." Rather than dealing with dangerous sharks and storms, Raban spends more time drinking champagne and maintaining his classic book collection aboard his cozy, quite luxurious vessel...
...forth in time as it proceeds, in its leisurely way, to solve the murder mystery that serves as its none-too-robust pacemaker. Readers in the millions took the book seriously because Guterson was so serious about it, though it did not hurt that his setting--an island in Puget Sound, before, during and immediately after World War II--was fresh and exotic...