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...whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..." Tell me, what author could help making that type of writing part of his or her own work? Of course, "like a rocket, the heat tore down her fingertips" may not be as poetic as Poe's words, but the principle is the same. THOM KERR Englewood, Colo...
...award named after her, has admitted lifting excerpts from the work of NORA ROBERTS (125 novels, 30 million in print). A fan happened to read Notorious by Dailey and Sweet Revenge by Roberts back to back and posted strikingly similar passages on the Internet. ("Like a rocket, the heat tore up her arm," in one; "Like a rocket, the heat tore down her fingertips," in the other.) Roberts, who once published 10 novels in a year, began to scan Dailey's work and says she found more examples. Dailey has publicly apologized, claiming that her actions were brought...
JERUSALEM: Hamas is claiming responsibility for the worst terrorist attack since Benjamin Netanyahu became Prime Minister. At 1:18 PM local time, a pair of bombs tore through a busy outdoor produce market in Jerusalem, killing 14 people, two of them believed to be Palestinian suicide bombers, and wounding 150 others. Police and soldiers immediately surrounded the market, ordering stores closed while they searched for more bombs. The attack came just one day before U.S. envoy Dennis Ross was scheduled to return to Israel in yet another effort to move peace talks forward. President Clinton announced that he would postpone...
...main Socialist nemesis, Strasbourg Mayor (now Communications Minister) Catherine Trautmann. But it was in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, where his daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted by a pro-Socialist crowd, Le Pen leaped out of his car and tore into the throng with fists flying. He violently pushed local mayor and Socialist candidate Annette Peulvast-Bergeal into a wall, shouting, "We're fed up with you people, don't you know that?" Such storm-trooper tactics have not deterred growing numbers of voters from backing the Front. In the past...
...women tore into the December stretch, the team rolled on, stretching its record to 7-0 with wins over Brandeis, Columbia and St. John's. Harvard held tight against the latter two, managing key wins at the end of the meets to snare 17-15 and 19-13 wins, respectively...