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...movie's narration begins, "A story like mine should never be told," and on screen it almost wasn't. Not long after the book became a sensation, Steven Spielberg signed on to direct; five years and many scripts later, he bowed out while staying on as a producer. Lucy Fisher, a producer, jokes that her next choice was David Lean, "but he wasn't available," having died in 1991. Other directors expressed interest, but none stuck. Then, in 2002, Fisher and her producing partner Douglas Wick saw Chicago and figured they had their man. "Geishas are trained much like dancers...
Freshman goalie Bud Fisher earned his fifth win with a dominant 35-save performance against the Crimson. Fisher allowed just one power-play tally and kept cool when Harvard peppered him with 15 first-period shots...
...Coetzee 7. Third Brother Nick McDonnell 8. Gilead Mailynne Robinson 9. Acme Novelty Library, Vol. 17 Chris Ware 10. Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich 10. Lincoln’s Melancholy Joshua Shenk
...Surging consumer and wholesale prices give him plenty of cover. Both measures showed their sharpest gains in more than a decade in September. And the Fed is sending out strong signals that it is concerned. Richard Fisher, the president of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has warned that inflation is near the "upper end" of the Fed's target range. William Poole, president of the St. Louis Fed, has said he had no doubt that the Fed "would respond to surprises in core inflation that seemed likely to be persistent...
EASTON, Pa.—The field looked bad. It played worse. A week ago, Lafayette, Columbia, and a torrential downpour combined to turn the Fisher Field turf into a veritable swamp. Constant rainfall and a broken drainage system hadn’t improved the conditions by kickoff Saturday, despite clear skies. Fortunately for the Crimson, the weather in Boston rivals that in Pennsylvania. “I think it rained almost as much up at Harvard,” senior fullback Kelly Widman said, “and we had a whole practice field of mud, just like...