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...Journalist, and a writer of blissfully puerile "letters." The pieces were selected and edited by Nile Southern, writer and son of the Grand Guy, and Josh Alan Friedman, musician, author of the terrific "Tales of Times Square" and a series of venomously funny cartoons, and the son of brilliant novelist Bruce Jay Friedman...
...silver bowl of fresh fruit--all compliments of the hotel. During that magical week, we visited museums--including the Palazzo Grassi's stunning exhibition on the Etruscans--took long walks, dined out and window-shopped. Just before we flew home in first-class comfort, we attended a brilliant performance of the Four Seasons in Santa Maria della Pieta, the church where Venetian-born Antonio Vivaldi first performed this work in the early 18th century...
...maintains a website and fields about 30 e-mails a day. "I was not gonna let this cruel world take my baby and not hear from me," she says. There's a lovely innocence about Pena's exuberance, despite all she's lost. ("They've got these wonderful, brilliant researchers all around the country researching cell-phone safety," she says at one point. "And they call me back!") But she remains a woman obliterated by grief. When she looks at her new three-month-old daughter Olivia, she aches at the baby's resemblance to Morgan. She often replies...
...distinct. And Lewis should know, since he did some of the siphoning--he was president of Mercury Nashville when the appealing but almost twangless Shania Twain rose to superstardom. "I don't feel like there's any irony there," Lewis says. "Shania Twain and [her husband] Mutt Lange are brilliant songwriters. In a twisted way, they helped remove the stigma that country might bring to performers like Lucinda or Ryan...
...ultimate fit minus two things. The committee looked long and hard at Bollinger—his intelligence, his questioning mind, his grand plans attracted them all—but no matter his brilliant ideas and wonderful personality, he had two fatal flaws in their mind. At 54, Bollinger was just too old. The committee wanted someone who could hold the job for 15 or 20 years, like the great presidents Bok and Eliot. After all, only 26 people had served as president in Harvard’s 365 years. Secondly, Bollinger had no Harvard degree—and thus would...