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...colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson's life to explore Hollywood's entire dark side, which has spawned such troubled figures as Heidi Fleiss, O.J. Simpson and River Phoenix. The book reaches its nadir in a chapter where readers learn more than they want to about the producer's unsuccessful timed-release testosterone implants in his buttocks...
...beyond Windows 98. The two-hour session produced a stalemate. Gates, said insiders, was ?intelligent, forceful and, above all, passionate,? but regulators were deaf to his entreaties. As an insider put it, ?Windows 98 is part?but only part?of the DOJ?s concern. It is only a chapter in a much bigger book...
...good Catholic she has always tried to be. But by the early '90s, it was clear to friends that even their four children weren't going to hold Steve and Mary Letourneau together. Expenses outpaced salaries--Steve loads cargo for Alaska Airlines--and creditors were phoning. They filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy...
...appeared mostly in scientific journals, has been gathered into an accessible and quite readable form in Hamer's provocative new book, Living with Our Genes (Doubleday; $24.95). "You have about as much choice in some aspects of your personality," Hamer and co-author Peter Copeland write in the introductory chapter, "as you do in the shape of your nose or the size of your feet...
This is the world that our protagonist, Lloyd, inhabits. "You don't do this deal because it makes sense," says Lloyd's boss, Doug; "you do it because it can be done." This being "A Novel of Business," each chapter follows a month in Lloyd's calendar, with an executive summary for bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate...