"What's the meeting about?" I asked, nodding to Drew Roberts as I passed his
 office.
"I just can't win," Van Doren complained.
Speaking in the University's cavernous Mandel Hall, Beck alluded to her expe
rience working on the Holocaust drama Hard Memories as a motivating factor i
n the gift.
When she spoke again, her voice rang out, amplified not by electronics but b
y her own crystalline body.