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CITIZEN VINCE JESS WALTER...
...Camden will eventually get to the bottom of it, but not before he figures out who deserves his newly recovered vote in the Reagan-Carter election, which is just around the corner. In his third novel, which won this year's Edgar Allan Poe prize for Best Mystery, Walter has created what may be the most charming small-time hood since Elmore Leonard's Stick...
...wasn't any easy night for anyone, including spectators. Fritz Walter Stadium sits on a hilltop in the south part of Kaiserslautern. In the hours before the game, fans trudged up the steep hill - there is no parking - to take their place at a site better suited for a ski jump. No wonder they were so cheery standing in line for beers, even singing the national anthem - they'd finally made it to the top. They did an encore for the start of the game - loud and proud - and immediately began howling at the ref. We could have been...
...early 1960s, a Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel began a series of famous experiments with snacks and kids. Mischel told his subjects they could have one little treat now or two if they waited awhile. The results varied widely. As Mischel and co-author Ozlem Ayduk note in their chapter of 2004's Handbook of Self-Regulation, the definitive psychology text on willpower, the very idea of delayed gratification baffled kids under 4. But nearly 60% of 12-year-olds were able to wait the full 25 minutes until Mischel returned with the two promised sweets...
...Although Walter Klyce ’10, who watched the ceremony with his sister Pauline W. Klyce ’06, said that he enjoyed the speakers, he thought there should have been a tent over the audience. “Even just the first 30 rows,” he said, adding that the ceremony should also have been cut shorter...