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According to Cambridge purchasing agent Cynthia H. Griffin, Muckey’s—which runs newsstands under the name Patriot News Inc.—will continue to operate the space as a newsstand...
...David Ellis, the chief attorney for house speaker Michael Madigan, will prosecute the case. He was scheduled to call as many as 13 witnesses, including an FBI agent who has been allowed to testify, and he will likely play tapes of recorded conversations with Blagojevich - from some of the thousands of hours of often crude conversations that the government has recorded to pursue its criminal case against Blagojevich for allegedly engaging in widespread pay-to-play politics...
That was in 2007. By 2008 people were reading Still Alice. Not a lot of people, but a few, and those few were liking it. Genova wound up getting an agent after all--and an offer from Simon & Schuster of just over half a million dollars. Borders and Target chose it for their book clubs. Barnes & Noble made it a Discover pick. On Jan. 25, Still Alice will make its debut on the New York Times best-seller list at No. 5. "So this is extreme to extreme, right?" Genova says. "This time last year, I was selling the book...
When Genova had reached the end of her unsuccessful search, she told the last literary agent who rejected her, "I've had enough of this. I'm going to go self-publish it." "That was by e-mail," she says. "He picked up the phone and called me within five minutes and said, 'Don't do that. You will kill your writing career before it starts...
...sells his home. That's because he's not likely to get back the $1.6 million he paid for the house when he bought it in 2004. If he were to sell it today, Geithner's house would fetch $1,357,500, according to Zillow. Add in real estate agent fees, plus any money Geithner put into the house in remodeling and repair costs, and Geithner is probably looking at an investment loss of more than $300,000. He can use that to lower the taxes he may have to pay against long-term stock-market gains...