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...Surprising? Easy? Oh, well, if it was easy, it would have been surprising. No, it was awful. I procrastinated quite a bit. I thought - and this is just naiveté and ignorance - but I assumed it would be easier than it was. The beginning was easy because I just sort of took my time and was dicking around. And then as the deadlines started looming and a year turned into five months, I started getting a little panicky. So I was like, "Can I get an extension on this?" And the publishers were like, "Yeah, sure," and reset the doomsday...
...chapters in your book skewers the literary-party scene. Have you been to any lately? No, the only thing I've ever been to - and it's not quite the same thing - is years ago, I went to a sort of charity event for the New Yorker at a supper club in Chelsea or something. There were some actresses, authors, various people. If you were to make a lazy stereotype of a New Yorker reader, it was that kind of crowd...
...what's this guy's secret? Start with the diet. "I try to eat a lot of raw foods and a lot of whole [grains]," says Couture. "I try to stay towards the alkaline type foods like raw almonds and greens and those sort of things as much as possible. Stay away from the dairies, the sugars and processed food, but keep it simple. I'm not one of those guys who likes to measure all that crap." As he's gotten older, Couture has also paid more attention to blood chemistry. He's now cutting down on his iron...
...Senators or his wife Victoria. "He sat down with his staff and Vicki and others, and he said, 'O.K., we're going to get so-and-so to do this, and we're going to work with [Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara] Mikulski on higher education to do that,' and sort of divvied it up. He talked to [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd. He laid it out, he weighed in," Kerry says. "If Teddy was in treatment or doing something, Vicki would relay to me what we needed to get done...
...else is going to do it? Who's in a position to deal with the loans and modify the loans, if not those that are servicing the loans?" he says. "They're sort of stuck with them...