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Carver sat astride the 22-ton machine, his dust-caked face streaked with the paths of recent tears. He remembers being frightened and tense as he guided the Cat toward an armed U.S. Forest Service agent holding a hand-lettered sign ordering Carver to stop. The agent stumbled and wound up briefly crawling on hands and knees. But Carver kept coming. He pulled out a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution, which he keeps with him always, and waved it defiantly at the agent as a crowd of about 200 people, a quarter of them armed, cheered him forward...
Back in London, Evans retreated to his cramped home office to start writing. When he was half finished, with mortgage payments overdue, he showed the book to an agent friend to get his opinion. The 215-page manuscript, circulated to publishers last October, sparked a frenzy of interest. Three different Hollywood producers agreed to pay $3 million for it. Evans eventually sold the book to Robert Redford after a soulful phone conversation. "He told me a story about riding in the mountains and seeing an antelope, a kind of communion they shared," Evans recalls. "He knew the book inside...
ARMOUR PHARMACEUTICAL Inquiry reveals it knew blood-clotting agent sold to hemophiliacs might be tainted...
...Saskatchewan gas station and went to work for the one across the street, it was noted in a modest ad in the local paper. Somehow, the ad--and Assman's snicker-inducing name--was brought to Letterman's attention. An appearance on the Late Show ensued--as did an agent, some commercials, a couple of marriage proposals and a name-recognition factor in Canada of 49%, according to a local polling concern, which means that Assman is better known to his fellow Canadians than many of their own politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps. Says the soft-spoken Assman...
Baum said he mentioned to the casting agent that he had been in "The Crucible" before, but he wasn't able to get the same role he had in high school...