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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Stand Information
9,874 words, approx. 33 pages
 The Stand is a post-apocalyptic Horror/Science Fiction novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. It re-works the scenario in King’s earlier short story, "Night Surf" (included in the short story collection Night Shift). It is widely hailed...




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Standings
10/23/2005: 599 words, approx. 2 pages SMAC Standings Through Friday's games Dist.Over.W-LW-LPFPAWestlake7-07-023455Lackey5-25- 221396McDonough5-25-2205112Northern5-25-217889Chopticon4-24- 2110111Thomas Stone4-34-3146102Patuxent3-33-3182118Great Mills3-43- 4130216Calvert2-52-5150150La Plata2-52-5105222Huntingtown0-60- 647183Leonardtown0-60-620266 Friday's games No. 5 WESTLAKE 32, GREAT MILLS 8 Great Mills (3-4, 3-4) 0008 -- 8Westlake (7-0, 7-0) 146012 -- 32 W -- Washington 65...
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 The Boston Globe
Where they stand
06/09/1996: 448 words, approx. 2 pages Last weekend, 200,000 people gathered to "Stand for Children" in Washington. The rally, sponsored by the Children's Defense Fund, was unusual in that not a single politician addressed the crowd. Voices of and for children dominated. The Globe asked some of the younger participants...
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Champ Car adopts the standing start
6/13/2007: 592 words, approx. 2 pages Justin Wilson admits he's going to have to pay a bit more attention now that Champ Car has adopted the standing start. "I saw the lights go out and I thought, 'I'm meant to do something now,'" he joked after the inaugural race to use...
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Tony Stewart penalized for cursing on TV
7/31/2007: 358 words, approx. 1 pages Tony Stewart was fined $25,000 and docked 25 points by NASCAR on Tuesday for cursing during his television interview after his win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Stewart, who had just scored his second victory in three years at his hometown race track, was soaking up the...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Anne Collins
251 words, approx. 1 pages
 In 1980, America dies for its sins (pollution of both landscape and spirit) in a shifting antigen plague leaked from some cavern of government-sponsored biological warfare. But the purge leaves certain issues of good and evil unresolved. In The Stand, Stephen King divides the survivors up like tiddledywinks into two camps, one devoted to good …, the other to the devil. Will it be Walden III or the Fourth Reich? In the panorama of mass disaster—and with such moral freight to consider—Kin...
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Critical Essay by J. Justin Gustainis
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 Stephen King has been writing very good and very scary novels and short stories for a number of years now. The Stand is something of a departure for him. This is not to suggest that it is not good, or, in its own way, scary. But the word which best describes it is one not heard much today outside of English classrooms: epic. Another word should also be resurrected too, this one out of the dusty tomes of Biblical scholarship: apocalyptic…. [He sets the stage] for a conflict, and in reference to that s...


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