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...manned them. "As kids we never talked about what we'd be when we grew up," recalls Marshall, the only member of her family to attend college. "There was just no question about growing up to be somebody." Then her father, an oilfield worker, became disabled. "We wound down to poor," she says, "and I got ambitious." As a teenage typist at local law firms, she started visiting court, eventually worked her way through law school at the University of Texas and went straight to Baker & Botts, where she specializes in contract and insurance litigation...
Pepper did not consider it demeaning to step down from Senator to Congressman, although he concedes that "most people go the other way." If he had somehow stayed in the Senate, he figures he would have become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and might have wound up serving longer than anyone else. "But that committee doesn't save many souls," he adds. "I know I'm doing more good...
...walked and Brad Bauer followed suit. Then Ed Farrell who started the day with a three-game home run string, nearly extended his streak to four-blasting a ball deep into the power alley in left-center. The ball bounced up against the fence, both baserunners scored and Farrell wound up at second...
...door on the driver's side had been left open, and the radio was blaring. The work team soon discovered why. Sprawled in front of the car was the body of a man, dusted with snow. A frozen pool of blood had formed under a gaping gunshot wound in his head...
...lengthy journey begins with the agonies of death ("Volcanic lips give fire, wells bubble. Bone lies like rubble upon the wound"). Surviving this fiery purgation is the ka (diminished soul) of an Egyptian named Menenhetet II. After experiencing the mummification of his discarded body, this ghost meets the kindred spirit of his great-grandfather Menenhetet I. The old ghost agrees to guide his descendant out of the necropolis at Memphi, a task that begins with a lesson in the creation of the Egyptian deities. Toward the end of this recitation, the young shade's attention drifts into the eddy...