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While the books of story spinners like Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz are usually reliable bets, a more striking measure of the risky bidding war is the six-figure contracts that publishers are dangling in front of unknown authors or those who would have been considered hopelessly academic not long ago. Sometimes these eye-popping deals are based on a one-page proposal sent over a fax machine, or even on no proposal at all. Yale history professor Paul Kennedy, who received an advance of about $20,000 from Random House for his surprise 1988 best seller, The Rise...
...quality led to Ocasio's appearance on the front line of Harvard activism, it was his ability to confidently articulate what roles minorities should be playing on campus...
...second attack by the same group of youths is reported, this time in front of Widener Library. The student, who is taken to UHS and released, says a special police telephone on the Yard failed to work properly and may have led to the escape of the perpetrators...
January 14: Providence hands the men's hockey team its eighth loss in its last nine games in front of less than 1000 fans at Bright Arena...
March 2: Cornell tops the cagers, 76-67, in front of a record Briggs Cage crowd of 2850 people, ending the Crimson's hopes for its first-ever Ivy title...