Word: authority
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Students at some houses are lucky enough tohave dinners with the pugnacious author NormanMailer '43, famed cellist Yo Yo Ma '76 orworld-famous composer Leonard Bernstein...
Whenever a sensational crime makes the headlines these days, literary agents seem to arrive on the scene almost as fast as the lawyers, and movie producers are not far behind. Such was the case with R. Foster Winans, the former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the paper's influential "Heard on the Street" column. Winans was convicted last year of fraud and conspiracy for leaking the contents of his articles before their publication to two New York stockbrokers, who traded on the information and earned nearly $700,000 in illegal profits. The reporter, who received...
Free while appealing his conviction to the Supreme Court, Winans, 38, has not been idle. In the dubious tradition of H.R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy and other authors of Watergate fame, Winans has told his story in a new book titled Trading Secrets: Seduction and Scandal at the Wall Street Journal (St. Martin's Press; $17.95). To promote this candid and engrossing tale, the author is on a 13-city tour. Winans is also negotiating to sell film rights to Hollywood Producer Arnold Orgolini, who wants to make a movie "along the lines of All the President's Men." Winans...
Without mentioning Nikita S. Khrushchev by name, the author indirectly criticized the late premier, who was ousted in disgrace...
...Nidal, a Palestinian who was the author of last December's Vienna and Rome airport massacres and may also be linked to the Karachi airport attack, concurs. "Syria for us is the mother country," he says. "For 2,000 years the Palestinians have not lived in an independent territory. Palestine of the future must be incorporated within Syrian territory...