Hawley-Cooke Booksellers’ Ship Has Sailed

Posted: August 27th, 2003 | Filed under: Culture, Features | 2 Comments »

Graham Cooke is not one to dally when in business mode. He was his usual scurrying self when encountered in his office last Monday afternoon. Then, turning his chair away from the computer screen, he offered, “I can give you a couple of minutes.”

It was not a normal business day. Just a day earlier, he, along with the three other Hawley-Cooke Booksellers’ owners — his wife, Martha Neal Cooke, Bill Schuetze and his ex, Audrey Beach Schuetze — had closed on the sale to Borders Books. Read the rest of this entry »

Do You Feel Lucky — How ’bout those WMD Odds?

Posted: August 6th, 2003 | Filed under: Features, Politics | No Comments »

Disinclined as I am to doubleclick on some silly diversion of a link in a forwarded e-mail, I couldn’t help myself.

First of all, I trust the sender. He’s an old comrade, loathe to dilly-dally through the day. The bloke’s got a mature outlook. Besides, he had the awareness not to forward the link in an e-mail containing 359 other addressees, in each of whose virus-vulnerable Outlook Expresses my handle would be deposited like a vagrant in a pauper’s staph-infected hospital ward.
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