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Just about every bar, restaurant and dining room table in Wichita has played reluctant host to an impassioned debate on abortion this summer. "It's going to take some time to regain a center of gravity," says Mayor Bob Knight, displaying a 6-in. stack of angry letters on his desk. "The passions and feelings are so deep, and the city of Wichita has been criticized by everybody...
After receiving his first stack of rejection slips in the mid-1970s, David Wong Louie made a painful change in the short stories he sent out: he stripped them of all traces of ethnic identity. "What I'd do is write in the first person about somebody like myself, but I wouldn't identify him as Chinese American," he says. "I was trying to satisfy my paranoia about what people wanted to read or what editors thought people wanted to read. And I didn't see anything out there to tell me differently...
Taylor is accusing Graham of purposefully starting the Elmuts match, and then inserting Pollock in an effort to stack Harvard's lineup. Taylor's reasoning is that Graham substituted a weak player, Pollock, at number-five in an attempt to let Elmuts win at number-six, rather than have both players move up a position and lose to higher-caliber players...
POINT 3. Stack space. I have always been skeptical of the argument that Widener does not have enough space to house its books, simply because every time I go there I see rows and rows of empty shelves...
...Blake pitched the star this idea: cavalryman goes to new fort, finds no one there. Wouldn't that make a good screenplay? "Don't write a screenplay," Costner said, pointing to a pile of scripts on his living-room floor. "It'll just end up in that stack. Write a book instead." A book called Dances with Wolves...