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...went to Smith College and she was an art history major, which her mother opposed as foolish. And she's one of those people who is bright but not terribly ambitious. She wound up being a postmistress in this little town, and that went on for years until the Federal government began making ever more regulations. They built a new post office and she couldn't take her animals to work. You can't do this and you can't do that. And she said, the hell with it and walked out, and [went ] back to farming. She turned...
...None, because nobody wanted to publish it. I mean, I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. Finally this little tiny company that just started, called Daughters Press, gave me $1,000 and published it. I never had a book review, never had an ad, didn't have a hard cover until I guess one of its anniversaries. It exploded and they couldn't keep up with the sales. They couldn't print them fast enough. So Bantam bought it. [ A million copies were sold...
...CAPE TOWN Bigger isn't better in South Africa, where the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 ($350) is a best seller...
...Saturday, hundreds of young monks, nuns and ordinary Tibetans, furious at the Chinese crackdown in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, marched to Jwalamukhi, where an earlier group of marchers had been detained for 14 days by Indian authorities. Nearly 700 people had descended on the town by evening. Organizers of the original march feared that passions could get out of hand and had to turn the protestors away, telling them to remain non-violent. On Sunday, hundreds more people gathered at Tsulagkhang Temple. More marches are planned for the coming days...
When, exactly, did Our Town become Their Town...