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...collaborator, Andrew Gross, used to run the sports-equipment company Head, but his dream was to write novels, and he couldn't get any traction with publishers. One day he got a call: Patterson had seen his manuscript and wanted to have breakfast. "Basically what he said was, I've got a lot of stories to tell, and nobody has the resources to tell 'em all, and would I like to talk about a project with him?" That was the beginning of a seven-year partnership, a highly educational one for Gross--he jokes that it's the equivalent...
...White House press secretary Scott McClellan immediately began giving reporters a detailed account of what Bush?s aides knew, and when. McClellan said that the night of the January 2 incident at Target, Allen called White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr., who told Allen to talk to White House Counsel Harriet Miers. "He assured them that it was a misunderstanding," McClellan told TIME. "The way he explained it to Harriet was that he was returning some merchandise and that there was confusion with his credit cards because he had moved a number of times." McClellan said Allen...
Watching former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow in the Enron trial this week was, at times, like attending a business school seminar. On the witness stand, testifying for the prosecution against his former colleagues Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, he spoke slowly and clearly, using easy-to-understand metaphors. When asked a question he often backtracked to give fuller, more detailed answers. His testimony was like a crash course in the financial shenanigans that led to Enron's collapse. One lawyer in the audience said listening to Fastow testify for one hour was like reading about the company...
...Other uncertainties in the lineup as the season approached have also been resolved. Sophomore Shawn Haviland, freshman Adam Cole, and senior Javier Castellanos emerged as the starting hurlers for this weekend, and they will be throwing to junior Andrew Casey, who earned the job behind the plate...
...admitted to a fiction class in the English department. “I’d been trying my darndest,” he says ruefully. When he heard about a non-credit screenwriting workshop in Winthrop House, he tried his hand at that.The seminar, taught by Winthrop tutor Andrew Arthur, proved to be a godsend. Screenwriting provided a path for Smith not to “take [himself] so seriously.”Although Smith has since earned a place in Visiting Lecturer on African and African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language Jamaica Kincaid?...