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Lena Lin, 28, is one of the models. She is sitting on the floor, reading a translation of Sheryl Sandberg's \"Lean In.\" Next to her is her friend Esther Yang, 27, skimming through a Chinese version of \"Notes on Directing\" by Frank Hauser and Russell Reich. The bookstore has a longstanding policy: Stay as long as you like, read as much as you want, just don't spill coffee on the books. Catnaps are fine. No purchase necessary. \"People really wanted to come read books late at night,\" Mr. [Timothy Wang] said in a telephone interview. \"Some young travelers who can't find a hotel bring their baggage and settle down in the bookstore. They feel that the environment at Eslite is really peaceful.\" \"In Taipei, there's nowhere to go actually,\" Ms. Lin said. \"Taipei is really small, so when we have no idea where to go, we just come to Chengpin,\" she said, referring to the store by its Chinese name.

\"[Jessica Hwang], [Michelle Lin] and [Esther Hong] were inseparable,\" Walnut High School teacher Robert Sandoval said. \"They knew how to balance academics with extra-curricular activities.\" \"You don't think about things like this, it's so terrible,\" [Melissa Pryor] said. \"Especially at the peak, going in to senior year.\" \"Life is in God's hands,\" [Mary Su] said. \"She was was here for a purpose, for a very short time.\"

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GREEN HILLS Mortuary (310) 831-0311 \\STLnobit1\\STLdnot,2\\STLobbox,2 [Dennis R. Schmitz], Dennis R. A life long resident of California passed away on May 9, 2004 at his home in Palos Verdes Estates. Born in Long Beach on Dec. 5, 1942, Dennis was 61. He was a 1964 graduate of University of California, Berkeley and a 1967 graduate of University of Southern California School of Law. Dennis practiced law in the South Bay area for 36 years, serving his community with generous giving of his time and intellect to help families in troubled times. He was a member and served on the Board of the South Bay Bar Assn., was a member and past president of the Harbor Bar Assn. and active in the Cal Alumni Assn. Dennis served in the US Army in Vietnam and later in the US Navy JAG Reserve. He retired as a Navy captain in 1991. He is survived by his loving wife, Caro; three sons, Craig (Christie), Chuck (Velveth), Mark ([Wendy Beatty]); two stepchildren, Kristy (Kent) Smith and Jeff Popovich. He will also be dearly missed by his grandchildren, Bonnie and Emily and Zach, Ben, Sam and Katie Smith; his father, Fidel; two brothers, Les and Jim and a sister Janis Bissell, as well as countless friends. A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held at Green Hills Memorial Chapel on Sat., May 22 at 11 am. In lieu of flowers, a scholarship fund has been established in Dennis's memory at the University of California. Donations may be made to the Dennis R. Schmitz Memorial Alumni Scholarship, 1 Alumni House, Berkeley, CA 94720. (510)642-7026

When Warner Books published \"Scarlett\" last fall, it made few pretenses that the venture was anything but commercial. Scarlett O'Hara was, in effect, a brand name on which Warner was capitalizing, and [Margaret Mitchell]'s wishes that the \"Gone With the Wind\" saga end with her final period were blatantly ignored. The authors and publishers of \"H.\" and \"Mister Grey\" say they are counting on readers' identification with established characters, but they take umbrage at the suggestion that they are coasting on an established literary success. In keeping with what has become a genre unto itself, it's not only literary characters whose lives are fictitiously fleshed out in new books. This spring, Hyperion plans to publish \"Clairvoyant: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce,\" a novel by Alison Leslie Gold about James Joyce's schizophrenic daughter, and HarperCollins is planning \"Queen of Desire,\" a novel by Sam Toperoff that imagines certain crises in the life of Marilyn Monroe. Moving Forward at Viking The \"new\" new edition of James Joyce's \"Ulysses\" is to be published by W. W. Norton. The book is part of a series, \"The Dublin Edition of the Works of James Joyce,\" being edited by Dr. John Kidd, director of the James Joyce Research Center at Boston University. Dr. Kidd caused a literary scandal several years ago when he charged that a much-hailed new edition of \"Ulysses\" produced by a team of German scholars was riddled with errors. . . . Houghton Mifflin is trying to ride the coattails of the critical and commercial success of \"Anne Sexton: A Biography\" by Diane Wood Middlebrook by reissuing \"Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters,\" edited by Sexton's daughter, Linda Gray Sexton, and Lois Ames. The new edition contains a forward by Linda Sexton addressing some of the controversy created by the Middlebrook biography, which drew on confidential tapes of psychiatric sessions between the poet and her doctor.