Word: accountants
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Novelist Nicholson Baker narrowly beat me to the punch with his 1991 account of his obsession with writer John Updike '54, U and I. It was the book which I had planned to write. Baker, an effective chronicler of life's minutiae, paid homage to the novelist whose rendering of America's interior life is yet unmatched...
...says the program will require an extra 600employees along with $2.5 billion in newsoftware, and that the savings being announcedjust take into account the savings on banksubsidies. "The new program will still cost thegovernment $15 billion, and that [cost] will justkeep going up," Cheever says...
...them Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gretel Wernher, dean of the social-sciences department, characterizes Rosario's student years as "disciplined and responsible." Those qualities would be essential to helping Rosario and Ames hide their espionage activities in the years to come -- especially since Ames, by one colleague's account, "wasn't a man who paid a lot of attention to detail...
...months after marrying Rosario, for instance, Ames scheduled a meeting with a Soviet contact. This is the first such unauthorized contact described in the 39-page federal affidavit. By that account, "on or about February 14, 1986, Ames scheduled a meeting with a Soviet contact, which, according to CIA records, he did not thereafter report." This notation implies that Ames' phone transaction was tape-recorded by the FBI but was not cross-checked at the time with CIA records, a move that might have exposed Ames' alleged activities early on. The affidavit further notes that according to bank- deposit slips...
...they improve their prospects of getting produced because one-person shows involve fewer salaries -- onstage, obviously, but also backstage -- and require less scenery and costuming. Artistically, these actor-authors have bargaining power to keep their visions intact. Says Evangeline Morphos, a producer of Blown Sideways Through Life, Shear's account of getting and hating 64 jobs: "If you finance a one-person show, you basically buy into the creator's view of the world. The words and delivery are their sense of reality. And you market the personality as much as the play...