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...more skulking off to the computer room to do my business! Now my wife and I could work, pay bills or check our e-mail from just about any corner of the house: kitchen, living room, porch. And since we have two small children, a mortgage and precious few spare moments together, the wireless network was just the productivity tool we needed to carve out a bit more quality family time. Or so I thought...
...this Friars’ squad is familiar with that style of play. Providence returns all but four of its players from a 24-win season last year and has depth to spare at each position...
...post on one side of the square. She wears a black turtleneck and pants, and a pair of fringed black boots. Whiskers are painted somewhat clumsily on her face. She mews plaintively at passersby, occasionally stretching in a feline manner. The pumpkin she is using to collect spare change has the words “Kitty, Kitty” scrawled on it in black marker. A tourist barks...
Didion makes these verdicts personal by presenting her own family--Californians for five generations--as prime embodiments of the state's ambiguous destiny. Nor does she spare herself: she offers a probing critique of what she now considers her wrongheaded nostalgia for the old California in her 1963 novel, Run River. Where I Was From, in fact, is "an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew...
...DIED. ELLIOTT SMITH, 34, folk rocker known for spare, moody songs about depression, turmoil and lost love; from an apparently self-inflicted stabbing; in Los Angeles. Smith recorded five CDs, which impressed critics and inspired a cult following. In 1998 he won an Oscar nomination for Miss Misery, one of five songs he wrote for the film Good Will Hunting...