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...battles in which Aubrey distinguishes himself and Maturin repairs the wounded are real, borrowed from history (the two are passengers on H.M.S. Java when the U.S.S. Constitution, now a tourist attraction in Boston Harbor, defeats the British ship off Brazil in his sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba, and the two heroes must block a huge shipment...
That was last summer, before her life spun completely out of control, before it was again and again on Oprah and Dateline and Geraldo, before it was retold (and often mistold) in papers from the New York Times to the tabloids. Letourneau's relationship with Vili, who turns 15 in June, as well as her conviction and imprisonment, have drawn international attention. The BBC has come to Seattle to film a documentary. Her image has been an alluring paradox: at once darling suburban teacher and predatory monster; so blond, so pretty, so...dangerous to children? She is more complicated...
Greg A. Gross, who helped get DFMC off theground, retold Feldman's wishes for his closefriend...
...good. Kaplan and Sanborn, now seeking the backing of a giant like Microsoft or America Online to develop Dysson and offer it to the public, may be evolving a new interactive art form. But they've also retold the Internet's oldest cautionary tale: Online exchanges may be virtual, but the emotions they provoke are quite real...
...with the country that saved her and fulfilled its promise of unlimited promise. But she has had reason to suspect for some years now that even she didn't know the whole story. And if she is distracted tonight, it may be because the story she has told and retold, the story that makes people cry when she is introduced at speeches, will by morning have been rewritten...