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Updike was noted for authoring over 50 books over the course of his decades-long career, winning his two Pulitzers for his books “Rabbit is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest...
...been performing at a really high standard. She’s just been doing really great. We’ve fenced a lot of great teams, so it was great to see her step up to the plate the way she did.” Although the rest of the sabre squad lags far behind Vloka in experience, the épée and particularly the foil events have more than made up for any shortcomings. Senior épée fencer Maria Larsson has come on of late, going 5-1 on the day, a pace matched...
...charges were shouted down as "sleazy" and a "smear." Then Adams effectively won the mayor's office with a landslide victory in the primaries last May, making the liberal city of Portland even prouder of its liberalism. But just as it was about to celebrate change with the rest of the country, sending Adams to Washington to attend Barack Obama's Inauguration, sex reared its head again. On Jan. 11, Breedlove sent a text message to Willamette Week reporter Nigel Jaquiss, who had persisted in pressing the younger man to speak on the record. Wrote Breedlove: "I'm scared...
...mayor has his work cut out for him - and it's not just about political survival. Monday morning saw the first casualty of his office when his press spokesman, Wade Nkrumah, handed in his resignation. Portland, like the rest of the country, is feeling the effects of the recession; the city is also in the middle of something of a crime wave. Two teens were killed and seven injured in a shooting outside an under-21 nightclub last weekend. Only 10 days earlier, there had been a gang-related shooting in broad daylight. How does a public servant go about...
...Zhao Ziyang, a former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Now he lives under virtual house arrest, his every move observed, every visitor screened by a handful of guards, every conversation presumably monitored. The Communist Party would clearly like him to fade into oblivion, to live out the rest of his days caring for his goldfish and taking walks in the park. But Bao Tong has no intention of going quietly. (See pictures of China on the wild side...