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...last December. (The alternative, of course, would be to forgo hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research funds, which would force Harvard to lay off legions of workers whom the writers of the Guide seek to protect.) And it portrays former University President Lawrence H. Summers as an agent of evil for his work at the World Bank that “[created] all sorts of elitisms,” ignoring that he was chiefly responsible for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which another article praises for breaking down Harvard elitism. Its logical inconsistencies are merely symptomatic...
...Seahawks claimed that Kacyvenski’s release had only been temporary. The popular captain of the Seahawks special teams, however, was a free agent and signed with St. Louis the day after the Seahawks offered him a new contract...
...advice, she founded a company--Triple Crown Publications--in her kitchen. When mainstream publishers began competing with her for authors, she started a literary agency, ensuring herself a cut from the contracts of writers who went big. K'wan was her first author and her first client as an agent. "Even when I was a hustler, I never wanted to sit on a street corner. I always wanted more control," she says. "I always wanted to have the freedom. I wanted to be the check signer, not just the receiver...
Within an hour Grisham had placed calls to his agent, to his publisher and to Annette Hudson and Renee Simmons, Williamson's sisters, who at first assumed it was a prank call. They realized he was serious when he got them a lawyer and bought the exclusive rights to their brother's story...
...lobby of a Tehran hotel, and remembered with sadness how relaxed such meetings used to be, and how tense and paranoid, even Soviet, they've become. We didn't talk so much as whisper, all the while eyeing the felt-covered furniture around us, half expecting a bearded agent to pop out from behind a fake plant, or the waiter to slip a listening device under the sugar bowl. Instead of discussing how Iran could avoid a nuclear crisis with the West, we talked about how we could avoid being labeled enemies of the state. Who cares about uranium enrichment...