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...topic--supporting faith-based institutions is in vogue with candidates from both parties--than for how Bush used it to neutralize his critics on both the left and the right. By pursuing a liberal end with conservative means, Bush placed himself and his guiding philosophy of "compassionate conservatism" smack in the center of the political spectrum. Sighed a top Democratic operative in Washington: "I hate to admit it, but it was a damned good speech...
...when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry Holt, which details a middle-class 15-year-old's descent into the world of heroin addiction and prostitution...
Teen fiction may, in fact, be the first literary genre born of the Internet. Its fast-paced narratives draw upon the target demographic's kinship with MTV, which has a joint venture with Pocket Books, and with the Internet and kids' ease in processing information in unconventional formats. Smack is told by multiple narrators. Monster, the latest novel by veteran children's book author Walter Dean Myers, is recounted in the form of a screenplay. Louis Sachar's Holes, last year's Newbery and National Book Award winner about a boy erroneously sent to a juvenile detention center, shuttles between...
...that such economies allowed many HMOs to provide prescription drug coverage. But the latest move by the industry throws many of these assumptions up in the air. Moreover, the development comes at a time when a growing number of patients have started to complain about HMO policies that smack of practicing medicine on the cheap. ?This has put the President in the position of backing a patient bill of rights against HMOs while he also presses them to take care of the elderly,? says Dickerson. The result is that HMOs have decided to fight back, leaving many seniors with...
Something similar happened when I started duping music CDs. I made a copy of Art Pepper's Smack Up, but it didn't work in my 18-month-old portable CD player. The solution was a CD-R disc, which can hold up to 74 minutes of audio and worked just fine on my portable player, my PC and my Mac. You'll have to go to the Net to find conversion software that allows you to burn MP3s onto CDs and play them in your Discman, however. None was included. Why? Why? Why? I never got a good answer...