Line of the Dead!

I’ve always loved a deadline. I’m one of those people who thrives on deadlines. I do some of my best work under pressure. When I decided, at the tender age of seventeen, that I was going to be a professional journalist, it was theadrenalinerush of the deadline that made me think I’d love working for a newspaper.

Throughout college I remember putting off twenty-page papers until the night before they were due, then sucking down pots of coffee and working into the wee hours of morning to finish...