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...after a fly ball injured an outfielder. In Stillwater, Okla., Karl Oltmanns, 68, a volunteer civic-group treasurer, paid $43,000 out of pocket to settle a funds-mismanagement case after his organization inadvertently let its directors' insurance lapse. On the nightmare chart, such cases rival a date with Freddy Krueger...
...play he had written about prison life to a full-length drama he titled Not About Nightingales. Williams entered the play in a contest for young dramatists held by the famed Group Theatre. (Since he was two years over the age limit, he lied about his birth date and signed with a pseudonym--Tennessee, after the state where his grandparents lived. The name stuck.) Williams won a $100 prize for some one-acts he also submitted. But Not About Nightingales was ignored and never produced...
Imagine being on the brink of stardom, but after your first big Hollywood premiere, you and your date are escorted out the back door. Imagine landing a role opposite Harrison Ford--the No. 1 box-office draw in the world--but your manager says the new "love of your life" may cost you the juicy part. Imagine--miracle of miracles!--that you get the lead anyway, but the studio hits the roof when rumors spread that you're pregnant with this new love. Now imagine that a $70 million investment rides on your performance--and on your love life...
Department of Defense. During Bill Curtis' 27-year career as a military computer programmer, he wrote more than a few lines of code that were century-insensitive. "I made decisions that we could only use two digits for the date," he confesses. Now, as the head of the Department of Defense's Y2K office, Curtis is in charge of fixing his own--and everyone else's--software screwups. It's a job nobody else wanted. Although the Pentagon began Y2K planning in 1995, repairs of the most vital computer systems were only 9% complete this spring...
Digital printing systems are breathing new life into out-of-print books. Lightning Print Inc. of LaVergne, Tenn., makes inexpensive ($15-$25), quickie paperback versions of older books, allowing bibliophiles to discover forgotten works from Phillip K. Dick, Doris Lessing and others. Only 150 titles are available to date, but the company hopes to offer 10,000 by year's end. The catch: Lightning Print works directly with publishers and prints only books ordered by them. To buy a Lightning Print book, customers must check with a bookstore or online seller to see what's in stock...