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...fast-rising popularity of lacrosse, especially among girls and young women. Since 1995, more than 40 new varsity women's programs have been established at U.S. colleges and universities. The sport is growing in high schools as well: more than two-thirds of the nation's several hundred thousand lacrosse players are under age 17. "I've been playing soccer since I was six, and I needed a change," says Kara Takesuye, a junior at the Bullis High School in Potomac...
...years old, an event that has appeared in several of his books. In 1996 Ellroy took time off from his fiction to write My Dark Places, a factual account of his attempt to find his mother's killer 38 years after the fact. He hired a detective and reinvestigated thousands of old leads. They did not find the killer, but Ellroy is not disappointed. "I suspect part of the whole dynamic of Jean Hilliker Ellroy and me is that I'm not going to know and I'm not meant to know... Closure is bulls___--it's not worth anything...
Readers of James Ellroy's groundbreaking, best-selling American Tabloid (1995) know pretty much what to expect from The Cold Six Thousand (Knopf; 672 pages; $25.95), which seamlessly picks up the story at the moment the earlier novel ended. Neophytes, though, deserve some advice and counseling. Think twice before you begin the first page. Are you sure you want to witness nearly every lurid conspiracy theory concerning public events during the mid-1960s fleshed out in brutal, nightmarish and totally unsentimental fiction? No? We hardened veterans thought not. Goodbye...
...time the names Jimmy Ray and Sirhan Sirhan start popping up, old Ellroy hands will know exactly where, in the year 1968, the headlong plot is aimed. No getting around it: The Cold Six Thousand is an exceedingly nasty piece of work. Yet it is often funny--particularly when the fictional Hoover and Hughes appear-- and traces an unexpectedly moral arc through all its mayhem. Pick it up if you dare; put it down...
...Last night, I sang for duh Sultan of Pasha. He offered me his harem of 500 wives. But I toined him down. Know why? 'Cuz when I get up in duh mornin', who wants to find a thousand stockings hangin' in duh bathroom...