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...When I interviewed you in college, you said, "Writing a column doesn't mean I can write a novel. That's like saying I won the gold medal for diving, so I think I'll play violin for the orchestra." Justify...
...None. We were relying on the fact that people going through that phase won't really remember the first book. On a lot of the books you can just see the 4 crossed out and a 5 written over it. It sold really well anyway...
Those Clintons are a team! First Bill grants clemency to violent criminals on the condition they won't be violent anymore, thereby guaranteeing Hillary New York's Hispanic vote [NATION, Sept. 13]. Then Hillary denounces hubby's move, posturing as a patriot with feet planted firmly on high moral ground, thus getting the rest of the votes. The wimp Republicans don't stand a chance against these professional con people. JIMMY REED Oxford, Miss...
DIED. GEORGE C. SCOTT, 71, raspy-voiced, imperious actor whose roles in The Hustler and Dr. Strangelove earned him Academy Award nominations, and who won and then declined an Oscar for Patton; of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm; at his home in Los Angeles. He won three Emmys and was nominated for four Tonys, but Scott's personal life was messy. He was married five times, twice to actress Colleen Dewhurst. He attributed his heavy drinking habits to a four-year stint digging graves for the Marines in Arlington National Cemetery. "I became an actor," he once said, "to escape...
Conventional wisdom is that there are some things people just won't buy online, and one of them is a sofa. "You want to sit on it, feel the fabric, see the color, make yourself comfortable for a while," says John Baugh, senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck...