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...Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s soap opera, Ivory Tower. Fisher seamlessly blended his extracurricular and academic pursuits in his award-winning creative thesis. His thesis, which was a screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school, garnered the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize. After graduation, he is off to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry—a plan of action he jokingly calls “gainful unemployment.” But Fisher relishes the unconventional post-graduation route he has chosen. While others...
...took his time writing this book: 30 years, to be exact. Norton's executive editor, who championed the novel at BookExpo, described it as a "throwback to great Victorian page-turning storytelling," It leads through opium dens, brothels and London alleys, while untying the tangled inheritance of an English baron. The publisher threw a huge, glamorous luncheon for Cox recently at the Biltmore Room in Chelsea, where there are more mirrors than at Versailles. There are high hopes for this big, thick historical novel...
...Look at his game now, and compare it to when he started 15 years ago," says a Railroad Baron who asked not to be identified. "He used to be a scrappy Mediterranean-and-Baltic guy, the consummate Utilities player. Now he's racking up Boardwalk and Park Place and the greens every time he plays. If he's not loading, then St. James Place and Tennessee Avenue aren't the most-landed on properties...
...only got worse when e-mails showed that the casino Reed secretly helped Abramoff close was run by the Tiguas, whom Abramoff turned around and signed up as clients months later with promises that he could help them reopen their gambling operation with Ney's help. Reed spokesperson Lisa Baron says he only learned of the attempt to sign the Tiguas up as clients "after the fact...
...Baron says the Reed-Abramoff exchange about Ballabon was all in fun. "Jeff Ballabon and Ralph are very good friends. This was just friendly kidding," Baron says. If Reed could have seen some of the e-mails Abramoff was sending other colleagues - like those he and Reed were exchanging surreptitiously about Ballabon - he might have known the trouble he was getting himself into. Even as Abramoff was embracing Reed for his help in 2002, he was writing a colleague, "He is a bad version...