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...attended public schools in New York City and applied to Princeton only to be waitlisted. Instead the 6'4" Parsons enrolled at the University of Hawaii at the age of 16, where he played basketball. He chose Hawaii, he told the New York Times, because a pretty girl who was his lab partner in had grown up there...
...much hate mail did you get? Let me be a little more honest in the word choice there. People felt very strongly and chose sides, and most of the hate mail...
...stint as a volunteer at an Israeli supply base (though a myth has grown that he actually served in the Israeli army). After that, he went into political fundraising--first for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and then for a little-known Arkansas Governor named Bill Clinton, who chose him to be White House political director after Clinton was elected in 1992. It was the first of a series of jobs Emanuel would hold in the Clinton White House before leaving in 1999 for the investment firm Wasserstein, Perella & Co., where he reportedly made a hefty $18 million in just...
That was in 2007. By 2008 people were reading Still Alice. Not a lot of people, but a few, and those few were liking it. Genova wound up getting an agent after all--and an offer from Simon & Schuster of just over half a million dollars. Borders and Target chose it for their book clubs. Barnes & Noble made it a Discover pick. On Jan. 25, Still Alice will make its debut on the New York Times best-seller list at No. 5. "So this is extreme to extreme, right?" Genova says. "This time last year, I was selling the book...
...honored to hear that she's a fan," Toledo said after learning that Obama had worn one of her designs during the campaign. "She chose to wear a dress made by a Latina and made in the U.S.," the designer told the New York Daily News. "She chose to support the industry here...