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There was a shter around the room Tullys was the loudest She knew more than his nae as a kind of wunderkind in broadcasting Heda network anchor before he was thirty Then, quite simply, hed lost it A pair of DWIs, a car crash that broke both of his legs and injured a child, and his star had fallen Thered been a couple of years with no mention of hi

Wiley stood He was unkeray-black beard, but the intelligence in his dark eyes was undireatness was still on him No wonder hed made it

He handed her a syllabus and started to move on

"Your coverage of the Karen Silkwood case was inspired," she said, shtly

He paused, looked down at her There was so about the way he stared—intensely, but only for a second; like a laser bea past her and on to the next student

He thought she was just another front-row suck-up anted to curry favor

Shed need to be ht now than i she could from him

Part Two

THE EIGHTIES

Love Is a Battlefield

heartache to heartache, we stand

CHAPTER NINE

By the end of her sophomore year, there was no doubt in Tullys mind that Chad Wiley kneho she was Shed taken two of his classes: Broadcast Journalisht, she took; whatever he asked of her, she did Full-bore Balls to the wall

The problenize her talent Theyd spent all of last week reading the news from a teleprompter Each time she finished, she ilanced up from his notes Rather, he spooled off a criticishbor, then called out, "Next "

Day after day, week after week, class after class, Tully waited for him to respond to her obvious talent, to say, Youre ready for KVTS Noas the first week of May With about six weeks left in her sopho