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What brought you to write this book...
...there any point where you thought, This is too much. I can't take this - I'm gonna go write about something nicer? Oh yep. I remember going out there and thinking Neal was this ghastly person. His slogan was "Praying for Death." He'd say that every morning he'd wake up and pray for death, and it would just keep coming. He'd get delighted when he received a phone call about a shotgun suicide. I remember thinking he was this mean, horrible character. And then the same thing happened to me. I was trying to write...
...Knowing that Princeton isn’t coming back to Cambridge this season and that I most likely won’t get to write about the Tigers again leaves me feeling bittersweet. True, I’m done for good with Princeton’s trio of Young Frankensteins and their cocky, insufferable teammates. But not since my days of bashing Dartmouth football had I drank as lustily from the Fountain of Haterade as I did during Saturday night’s game...
...lobbying coordination of lobbying efforts for a preset "cooling-off period" of two years. The chief sponsor of that effort happened to be Senator Obama. "Obama was the one who really became excited about the whole idea," says Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a group that helped write the bill. "We lost that on the House side, initially. It was largely the committee chairmen who didn't want that in there...
...California octuplets are only the second set to be born in U.S. history. "We're picking out this incredibly rare event, and all of a sudden, we want to pass laws," says Paulson. "Would we write laws limiting the size of someone's family to six? Would we write laws mandating selective reduction?" he asks, referring to the option of aborting some embryos if a high number successfully implant in the uterus. "Restricting reproductive rights would be a minefield...