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When did you realize the book was taking off? I was driving from Mississippi to Atlanta with some friends of mine and there was this tornado that literally tore across the highway. We had to pull over, so we went to this truck stop and were drinking beers when [my publisher] Amy Einhorn called me and said, "You're on the New York Times best-seller list." I thought the best-seller list was just 1 through 10; I didn't realize it was so extensive. I think we landed at No. 16 or so. And then we were...
...abide by Washington's demand for a complete freeze of settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - and the Palestinians' refusal to enter talks without one - has left the Obama Administration's plans in tatters, with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas threatening to resign and pull the plug on the PA and the peace process of which it forms a part...
...with 45 seconds to play, Harvard made the move to pull Kessler off the ice in favor of an extra skater. But the sixth skater hit the ice before Kessler was off, and the Crimson had to finish the game on the penalty kill...
...Harvard Dance Program, also limited to the extracurricular realm, shares similar constraints. “I think our Harvard students come in and are very prepared and smart so they can pull it off,” says Bergmann, who is not considered a full-fledged faculty member. “But at administrative levels there’s no faculty representation. I’m not privy to the decision making here in dramatics, theater and dance. We don’t have a voice at the table. And we need one. We’re still an extracurricular...
...growing opposition to the wars - which apparently spiked when President Barack Obama decided not to pull U.S. troops out of region, as Hasan had hoped - crystallized when he received orders for his first combat deployment. "We've known for the last five years that that was probably his worst nightmare," Nader Hasan, a cousin, told Fox News. "He would tell us how he hears horrific things ... that was probably affecting him psychologically." Authorities took note six months ago when someone with Hasan's name posted messages on the Internet likening suicide bombers to soldiers who protect their buddies by diving...