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Postscript: Many have cited Mandy Grunwald and sister Lisa Grunwald--a published novelist--as potential co-authors with both the inside knowledge and literary skill to have pulled off Primary Colors. Mandy denies it and has her own suspect: Roger Altman, the former Deputy Treasury Secretary who was an economic adviser to Clinton during the 1992 campaign. Indeed, since leaving the Administration in 1994 after a dispute over his testimony to the Senate Whitewater committee, Altman may have had the time to write a novel. His response: "It's both flattering and preposterous...
While Britain has lost its edge in manufacturing and rock music, it is still the world leader in ceremonies and formal occasions. Disney has the know-how to export this skill. Royal trumpeters, flag wavers, standard-bearers, etc., could be leased to governments and companies for annual meetings and other events. The royal flatware and dinnerware could be rented out for notable weddings. Speaking of nuptials, it's a shame Britain missed the pay-per-view potential of Charles and Di's. It's not too late to put together a TV deal for the divorce proceedings, but Disney...
Piedrahita's roommates each told stories of their lives together at Harvard John E. Tessitore '96 likened his relationship with Piedrahita to that in the Bruce Springsteen song "Blood Bathers," recaliing the first time the two listened to the song together, when Piedrahita's CD player began to skill...
...spotted the woman again but can't be sure, sparking a series of reflections--on the woman, on the vacation, on her life of privileged frustration--that force Lucy to confront the emptiness at her core. It's a quiet but disturbing moment, emblematic of Egan's skill...
...searching weren't nerve-racking enough, operating the detectors requires great skill because the instruments, sensitive enough to home in on a bomb, can be confused by the soup of a metropolis' naturally occurring radiation. Freshly paved roads, yellow rest-room tiles, the Vermont granite used in some of Washington's federal buildings, a patient walking out of a hospital after radiation therapy, even a bunch of bananas can set off the detectors. Finding a nuclear bomb in a city, according to a searcher, "is like looking for a needle in a haystack of needles...