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...titular "one hundred demons" are actually seventeen vignettes from the author's life, mostly from her childhood. Treating the book as something of a Zen exercise, Barry has claimed that, with no determined direction, each piece began as a word or phrase on a notecard. The somewhat random subjects of each story bear this out: Dancing, Hate, San Francisco, Dogs, Girlness, etc. "Dancing," for instance, tells of Barry's childhood enthusiasm for hula dancing. With fantastic powers of memory (or perhaps imagination) Barry recreates the near-hallucinatory, intensely-observed world of childhood. The hula teacher is a "middle-aged white...
McDonald is lauded for his powerful sense of dedication to his work, his promotion of student leadership, and his random acts of kindness...
...work up the nerve to ask random members of the biology department if they can explain, in terms of evolutionary psychology, why their wives slept with...
...same, the boys and girls—mostly girls—of our generation found ways to break free from the literary stalwarts of our mothers and grandmothers. Prostrating ourselves on the steps of publishing castles Scholastic and Random House, we were rewarded with series of a scope, scale and publishing frequency never before matched. We stacked nightstands with books of uniform size, with numbers on the front covers and spines of all the colors on the color wheel. We got Goosebumps; we learned Girl Talk; we had favorite American Girls, and usually a favorite American Girl outfit or furniture...
...since a long gun was used, there's a chance that witnesses may turn up. While some officers thought that the style and accuracy of the shootings suggested a marksman, Coulson says modern gun sights make "a shot of 100 meters or so" fairly simple. And the apparently random selection of victims, says former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt, indicated a madman or a killer disguising his real agenda. On this question--Why?--the bullets were silent. --By Elaine Shannon