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...outset of her career Sontag produced two fairly bloodless novels, The Benefactor and Death Kit. Neither one made it seem that fiction was her natural milieu. But she went on to publish some fine and original short stories and eventually returned to the novel with new juices flowing. In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who sets up a utopian commune in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural critic that she made her lasting mark. "Sometimes," she once said, "I feel that...
...distinctive cartons soon became a fixture in stores across Italy, and ultimately conquered Europe and much of the world. Tanzi also discovered the power of sports marketing, and plastered the Parmalat name on events from World Cup skiing to Formula One racing. A pious Catholic, Tanzi was a generous benefactor who sponsored the restoration of Parma's 11th century basilica and funded its professional soccer team. And he seemed modest about his achievements. He didn't smoke, drank little and drove his own Lexus. Behind his company's facade of success, however, a hole kept growing. Parmalat's finances were...
...laughs. Still, you have to be anxious about a show that defines women entirely in terms of their homemaking. I mean, do we really want reality TV to drag women back to the 1950s? Oh, wait - "The Bachelor" already took care of that. Carry on, then! Meanwhile, on "The Benefactor," billionaire Mark Cuban is giving away a million dollars to the average American who can best help him achieve his humanitarian goal: stealing publicity from Donald Trump...
...collection in the 1940s in collaboration with her first husband, Donald Hyde, a Harvard Law School graduate. According to Morris, Hyde was an equally enthusiastic collector, and soon after their marriage the pair became acquainted with Arthur Houghton ’29, Houghton library’s original benefactor and librarian...
...Steps’ greatest benefactor, whether or not he intended to be, is Bill Clinton, whom the Steps rank first among the funniest people in American history (Dan Quayle is runner-up). Strauss even considers Clinton the second funniest person in world history behind Henry VIII. “How do you get funnier?” he asks. “[The scandals] just went...