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...well aware, is how it all starts. If you're unfamiliar with this particular mental disorder, be patient--the recollections of a neurotic mind are always more obsessively fascinating to the afflicted than to the sane. And, as any decent Harvard student will tell you of this travail, be forewarned...
After the popular success of his Lincoln book, Oates went on to write a great deal more, including biographies of Martin Luther King Jr. (1982) and William Faulkner (1987). His travail began in 1990, when an American literature professor named Robert Bray delivered a paper at an Illinois historical conference that pointed out some close similarities between passages in Oates' and Thomas' Lincoln biographies. Some other scholars jumped at this scent and began combing through Oates' writings, looking for evidence of unacknowledged borrowing from other sources. A year later, complaints of plagiarism against Oates were brought to the American Historical...
That year Quasha made one of his worst investments, paying $36 million (probably twice its real worth) for E-Z Serve, a stodgy owner of gas pumps at 900 rural service stations and convenience stores. It suffered every travail from management infighting to IRS audits to environmental disasters. Seven states have cited E-Z Serve for soil or groundwater contamination...
...written statement, Joe Cruzan said that because of his daughter's travail, "I suspect hundreds of thousands of people can rest free, knowing that when death beckons they can meet it face to face with dignity, free from the fear of unwanted and useless medical treatment." At week's end he and his wife Joyce had decided to instruct the hospital in Mount Vernon, Mo., to remove the tube. Nancy, 33, is expected to die within two weeks of that action...
John Steinbeck was haunted by the almost biblical travail of the Dust Bowl farmers, uprooted from their homesteads by bank foreclosures, trekking by the tens of thousands to the promised land of California, only to face brute exploitation as field hands. After two failed novels, he finally got it right on his third try, and after two years of developmental productions, Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe has finally succeeded in adapting his epic tale for the stage. The best measure of this portrait of a family in agony and dissolution is that it is actually better -- less sentimental and truer -- than...