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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...printed form. It seems like it should be that kind of gesture, but it never crossed my mind that it was an expression of defiance. If it's taken as that, that's great. I did it for the pleasure. It didn't have to do anything with my career or the Internet or the publishing world. It was just to be handling the books. I worked in used-book stores for 15 years on and off. That was the only work I ever had before becoming a full-time writer. I have a lot of osmotic book knowledge just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...video-wind-tunnel situation, and we completely approve. Rachel’s great here, and Quinn’s seething is perfect, but Finn’s heavily autotuned voice is distracting. Still it's an enjoyable number. However, FlyBy is vehemently opposed to anything that sanctions the continued career of the monster that is Chris Brown...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: Recap: "Throwdown" | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Although he began his career as a lawyer at the prestigious firm of Cravath, Swain & Moore, Wasserstein eventually went into banking. When he joined the investment bank First Boston, he helped build the firm into one of the most prominent mergers and acquisitions establishments of the 1980s, according to media reports...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Corporate Raider, Donor Passes Away | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...point out, he was elected president of that body's ruling center-right majority. That electoral record makes his ambition to seek the EPAD presidency - which also requires him to win a majority vote by board members - entirely logical. "Jean Sarkozy has been elected at every step of his career," Education Minister Valérie Pecresse noted on the television channel i-Télé Tuesday. "No affirmation is more democratic than an election," echoed former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a conservative, as he defended Jean Sarkozy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Backs Appointment of Son to Key Job | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...father's political fiefdom for more than 20 years. The right's lock on the area, they argue, means Jean's subsequent election as president of the conservative group in regional council was simply the work of officials loyal to Nicolas Sarkozy seeking to boost his son's career. That rightist domination within EPAD, opponents say, will similarly produce a pro forma election of Jean by people who view him as the second coming of his father - and the right's potential star in years to come. "This is the appropriation of a country by one family and clan," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Backs Appointment of Son to Key Job | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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