Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House Judiciary chairman had summoned the ghosts of Normandy as witnesses to the sanctity of the "rule of law." Ruff's voice trembled as he turned that appeal back on its author. "I have no personal experience with war," he said quietly. "I have only visited Normandy as a tourist. But I do know this: my father was on Omaha Beach 55 years ago, and I know how he would feel if he were here today. He didn't fight, no one fought for one side of this case or the other. He fought, as all those...
Peter Lynch became a fabled money manager and best-selling author mainly on the back of a simple investing principle: Buy what you know. But how can the average investor square that strategy with the equally compelling mantra: Diversify for safety? It's one thing for a pro like Lynch to gain enough knowledge about enough stocks to own only those that he understands--and still be diversified. He's got the time and resources. Most individuals, though, are doomed to a far narrower scope. Their best edge may always reside in the company or industry where they work...
...help of her court poet; she would then pass the ideas on to Perugino, one of her court artists, with instructions not to invent anything of his own. Something of this kind may have happened at Alfonso's court, whose star poet was none other than Ludovico Ariosto, author of the enormously successful epic Orlando Furioso. Dosso did some paintings that were illustrations of episodes from Ariosto, and is known to have designed sets--long since vanished--for Ariosto's plays...
...HILLARY CLINTON could make back all the money she and her husband forked over to Paula Jones, while getting a little sly revenge on Bill: take the $5 million book contract JUDITH REGAN is offering her. Regan is the saucy HarperCollins editor known for making gravy with such authors as Rush Limbaugh and Wally Lamb. But, says the First Lady's lawyer, Robert Barnett, "for now, Mrs. Clinton is not considering any book offers. She will not turn her attention to that before 2001." In fact, some speculate that Hillary could command well over $5 million if she decides...
...that got away: Monica. Having snubbed a $4 million book-and-TV offer from Regan before the Starr report was out, Monica was offered less than $1 million for a book afterward. The deal died, says Regan, partly because of the Lewinsky camp?s distaste for another big-haired author of hers: Howard Stern...