Word: authorly
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Harvard's Development office, which paid for the trip, flew the students to California to demonstrate student involvement in the arts at Harvard. The undergrads performed at a fund raiser sponsored by author Michael J. Crichton '64 and actor John A. Lithgow '67, according to one of the students, David C. Ables...
...dense narrative focuses on two implacably determined prosecutors, who with the help of informers managed to breach the wall of secrecy and the infamous culture of omerte (silence) that surrounded the Mafia. Childhood friends from Palermo, aloof, workaholic Giovanni Falcone and the gregarious Paolo Borsellino were, in the author's phrase, Sicilian patriots. Together they painstakingly amassed the evidence that led to the first so-called maxi-trial, of 475 Mafia conspirators, which began in Palermo on Feb. 16, 1986, and ended 22 months later with the conviction of 344 defendants. Both prosecutors eventually paid for their integrity and grit...
...Grisham novel hits the bookstores. His latest, The Rainmaker (Doubleday; $25.95), has just made its debut at No. 1 on the best-seller list; its first printing of 2.8 million copies set an all-time record. When Hollywood offered a mere $6 million for the movie rights, the author temporarily withdrew his book from the market. After all, he got the same amount for his last movie sale, A Time to Kill, and the only direction Grisham can see is up. Each of his first three best sellers doubled the sales of the previous one. Total sales...
Second-year Harvard Law School student James G. Berman '90 has just released his first novel, Uninvited, following in the footsteps of fellow HLS alumnus--and author of Presumed Innocent--Scott Turow...
Wechsler, the author of the binge drinkingstudy, suggests two solutions to the alcoholcrisis on college campuses...