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The tractable Bernice is so quick a study, however, that the plan backfires, and Margery's most persistent beau, Warren--never more important to Margery than after his attention begins to wane--shows all the signs of switching his allegiance. The cooler weather, with its 60 percent humidity Wednesday night, caused firefighters to cancel planned backfires -- controlled burns that eat up brush and create breaks to stop the wildfire from advancing, Skaggs said. In the novel, Opal's mission to reinvent herself backfires when her friends discover her game-plan, but in real life Viswanathan suffered a far more public humiliation when stories detailing numerous instances of plagiarism in Opal Mehta hit The New York Times and the "Today" show. |
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