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Think of Mitch Albom as the Babe Ruth of popular literature, hitting the ball out of the park every time he's at bat. His 1997 memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, was a record-breaking best seller, with 11 million copies in print in 41 countries. The popular TV film of the book, which he wrote, garnered four Emmys. His 2003 novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, added another 8 million copies to his scorecard. He also maintains his day job as a sports columnist and radio commentator. TIME spoke with Albom, 48, just as his much awaited...
...will be available for purchase by those of legal drinking age. Professional Bartending, Inc. has been contracted to set up four stations (corresponding to our Harvard neighborhoods) where students may purchase drinks for $1.00. There will be fifteen professional bartending staff working at three stations to help avoid lines. BAT team employees will have stations where students of legal drinking age may obtain bracelets enabling them to purchase alcoholic drinks. Students must show a College I.D. and either a driver’s license or a passport. 6. Food and non-alcoholic beverages, including hot chocolate, will be provided free...
...Gregory Mankiw (guess which one worked in the Bush administration!) and you’ll be able to justify all manner of evil. It’s practical, painless, and potentially profitable. Best of all, you’ll be done with Social Analysis, right off the first-year bat. BAM!But for that rare Harvard student with a soul, the punishment for avoiding the freshman year Ec 10 route is having to take a Social Analysis somewhere down the line. But never fear! There are several perfectly amenable options to knock off this core without dropping a sweat?...
...everything from the minimum wage to how to give the European Union more heft, Royal, who turns 53 this month, was seen on a ferry boat, on a live TV interview and at a posh portside restaurant. "As the leader of the race, it's not her job to bat around ideas with the challengers," explained Malek Boutih, a member of the party's National Secretariat. "She has to concentrate her power for the battle ahead against the right." Many are keen to remind her that it isn't yet her battle to lead. Party members will not choose their...
Franzen is also working on a new novel. It's poor form to grill a writer about a work in progress, but I do it anyway, and he throws me a few cryptic crumbs. "The deep ecologists like to say that nature bats last," he says. "Whenever anyone is trying to say, mankind is smarter than nature ... we are of nature. And nature does therefore always bat last." So something political? "Certainly that's another thing I've been doing over the past five years. Being upset over the state of American politics...