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...madness here. TIME: So, how is the company doing? Byng: Well, we were predicting a turnover of $5.25 to $6 million. But Waterstone's in London sold 1,100 copies of Pi the day following the Booker announcement. More than Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang sold the day after his Booker. So the next couple of months ... TIME: Your wife's family helped you buy out the company. Now you two have recently separated. Will this affect the business? Byng: She's still a shareholder. She's not formally involved in the company...
...weeks alone would challenge even the most solid government. It begins this week with a key summit of European leaders in Brussels, where a top item on the agenda is the financing of the European Union's enlargement. The Netherlands has been the most aggressive of the so-called Gang of Four, pressing alongside Germany, Sweden and the U.K. for radical reform of subsidies in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). After the Germans and the British, the Dutch are the largest net contributors to the program. The government wants to make enlargement conditional on reform of cap, an idea that...
First, it’s not very easy to drum up sympathy for a multi-billion dollar corporation of highly paid athletes whose tight grip on World Series’ rings had been loosened by a gang of overachievers working for Disney. Ben Stiller, I agree: it’s not easy being a eugogolizor...
...with lots of really fun, funny, smart people. The first band I was in, though, was a nightmare. I guess it really just depends on the people involved—some people are darker, some more mature. Being in a band is like being in a family, or a gang, and that can be great but it can be claustrophobic at the same time...
Since the fateful voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and his sighting of land on Oct. 11, the lives of people indigenous to the “New World” have drastically been changed forever. Alcoholism, unemployment and gang violence among this country’s 2.5 million Native Americans continue to challenge policymakers in Washington. For their part, Native Americans have recognized that the only available remedy is the continued development of well-educated civil and tribal leaders. The Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), which was started in 1970, has focused on this objective as a large...