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...everyone agrees. After Winfrey picked Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections in 2001, the author said he had never seen her show and the thought of his book having "that logo of corporate ownership on it" dismayed him. "[S]he's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe," said Franzen at the time. Winfrey's reaction was swift: she rescinded an invitation for Franzen to appear on her show. (The Corrections stayed in the club; Franzen, chastened perhaps by his publisher, thanked Oprah in his acceptance speech when the novel won the National Book Award...
...George Washington called Charlotte, N.C., a "trifling place." In 1941 an author scoffed that the city had as much use for high-rises "as a hog has for a morning coat." By 1991, Charlotte was still a minor-league city without major-league sports, a cultural wasteland with a central business district that died every weekday after work. "No restaurants. No nightlife. Nothing," recalls seven-term Republican mayor Pat McCrory. "You could lie down in the street and never have to worry about getting run over." A local planner gained notoriety by proving it was impossible to find a Snickers...
...Jungle. She also just announced a deal to write young-adult novels about the teen years of Carrie Bradshaw. One Fifth Avenue should round all that out nicely. It's certainly a page turner of practically Germanic efficiency. But it also reminds us of a weird truth about its author, which is that Bushnell on the page is a far darker, more interesting creature than Bushnell on the screen...
...panel, entitled “Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts,” featured an all-star cast, including Dean of Harvard Business School Jay O. Light, Business School professor and Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton, and Ec 10 professor and textbook author N. Gregory Mankiw. The participants discussed their views on the events that led to the current crisis, the bailout plan making its way through the halls of Congress, and more extensive, permanent resolutions...
School of Public Health professor Rob M. van Dam, who is the first author of the study, said that he and his colleagues collected data from 77,782 married nurses from across the nation over a span of 24 years...