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...afternoon--and nearly all her Christmas vacation--to writing practice essays and memorizing 150 vocabulary words on flash cards. In the final days before the test, she stepped up her studying regimen, cramming sometimes until after midnight. And when the big day arrived last week, Lajoi took a lucky rabbit's foot to the test along with her No. 2 pencils. "If I don't do well, it would just be frightening to me," she says. "I won't be able to get into college...
...President's team. I considered it to be possible that he was delivering a message from the central administration that it was open to resolving Peter's case if we chose to follow this procedure. The point is as simple as the Uncle Remus story about Brer Rabbit and the briar patch. Each thorn along the procedural way a prick to spark consciousness in a new Harvard audience, each a stopping point along our way toward truth and justice and a stage to tell our story...
...title, a sly gibe at John Updike, Rabbit at Rest and all the other Rabbits, is worth a smile. Here, McMurtry's Duane Moore, 62, rich, beset by family and bored to a frazzle, flummoxes his Texas town by ditching his pickup truck and walking everywhere. The book is within cat-kicking distance of funny. Real guys don't walk, not in Thalia, Texas. The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed. He has lost the happy soul's gift of reality avoidance. So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist...
...think we have an amazing group of people with lots of talent and enthusiasm, and I eagerly look forward to working with them all," said Vice President-elect Erica P. Rabbit...
...hard times any worthwhile success story demands. It was not until he moved to Los Angeles and partnered with his shrewd and kindly older brother Roy, who took care of business for him, that he began to prosper modestly. Even so, his first commercially viable creation, Oswald the Rabbit, was stolen from him. That, naturally, reinforced his impulse to control. It also opened the way for the mouse that soared. Cocky, and in his earliest incarnations sometimes cruelly mischievous but always an inventive problem solver, Mickey would become a symbol of the unconquerably chipper American spirit in the depths...