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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tell me about your heroine, Kinsey Milhone. What is she like? I claim she is a loner, and she is to a certain extent. She's perfectly happy in her own company. She says at one point, "I am not half of something looking for the other half." She's been married and divorced twice. She also says, "I keep my guard up along with my underpants." So she's careful about sexual connections with guys because to her it represents a hazard. She likes working for herself. She's persistent. She's curious. She's not above breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...until I get there. Each of her adventures that I document, she's generous enough, and I speak of her as though she were a real person, but after all these years of living with her, I think of her that way. So we'll see. I don't tell her; she tells me. I'm just along for the ride and happy to be part of her strange and glorious life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...superstardom started slowly, in Akpan’s case. “I played in the YMCA league when I was around four, and my dad always used to tell me that I hated it. I used to skip around and not pay attention,” he says...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Andre U. Akpan | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Opposes the controversial "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, which forbids gays from serving openly in the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...husband almost killed himself in grief," his wife says. "The day [the Marines] came to tell us Alex was dead, he poured gasoline all over himself and all over the inside of [their] car and lit it on fire. He survived ... physically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan War Through a Marine Mother's Eyes | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

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