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DIED. JOHN SACK, 74, war correspondent and pioneer of New Journalism; of complications from prostate cancer; in San Francisco. Sack reported from the battlefields of every major U.S. conflict, from Korea to Afghanistan, most notably for Esquire magazine. His 33,000-word piece "Oh My God! We Hit a Little Girl," an unflinching account of an infantry company in Vietnam, is the longest article ever to appear in Esquire. After he interviewed Lieut. William Calley, who was convicted of killing civilians at My Lai, Sack was indicted on federal felony charges, later dropped, for refusing to hand over his notes...
...DIED. JOHN SACK, 74, author, war correspondent and pioneer of the New Journalism; in San Francisco. Sack reported from the battlefields of every major U.S. conflict from Korea to Afghanistan. His 33,000-word piece "Oh My God?We Hit a Little Girl," which followed an infantry company in Vietnam, is the longest article ever to appear in Esquire. After interviewing Lieut. William Calley, an officer convicted for the massacre of civilians at My Lai, Sack was indicted on federal felony charges, later dropped, for refusing to surrender his notes to prosecutors...
...Gareth, the foodboy, works in a hotel kitchen in Llanparc, Wales. As the story begins he walks along a lonely mountain road carrying a sack filled with a souvenir snow globe and a steak of raw Welsh lamb. He's going to meet his friend Ross, and feed him. Ross hasn't been himself lately, as we see through a series of flashbacks. We first meet Ross, a big guy with a shaved head, at a tent revival in the middle of the town. Ross interrupts the sermon to proselytize his own beliefs - a system he characterizes by saying nothing...
...Determined to go straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become a licensed massage therapist. It sounds like comic relief, and in a way it is, but Tony B., clinging to his modest dream, is also a poignant figure, Tony Soprano's sad-sack but decent alter...
...huge pearl buttons," she says. While an editor at Mademoiselle in the early 1990s, Spade found little on the market that lived up to her mother's collection. So in 1993 Spade began sketching boxy totes in her Manhattan loft and buying burlap for her bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like a nice girl,'" Spade recalls. "'You don't want to get into the business. Settle down.'" Instead, Spade rocketed into the fashion elite, as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman began selling her nylon totes...