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Both Kaufer and Weinberg said they were astounded when they read “The Naked and the Dead,” Mailer’s first novel, a vivid depiction of war based on Mailer’s experience as a soldier in the Pacific in World War II...
Mailer would go on to write over 30 books, but both roommates said “The Naked and the Dead”—a World War II novel that the writer published when he was only 25—was their favorite...
...distributed the ball, and played swarming defense. His five assists and four steals were also career highs. Lin’s former coach at Palo Alto High School, Peter Diepenbrock, remembers the versatility and team-first mentality that distinguished him during the Vikings’ Division II state title campaign in 2006.“He was just a person that totally got [that] it was about winning,” Lin said. “Especially at the high school level, that’s very rare. Kids are normally caught up in their own deal, and have their...
...have a scenario for the never-to-be-made Fred Claus II: the elves unionize, realizing that they get paid even less than the 12-year-old Chinese girls who paint lead onto American kids' toys. If Willie and his pals were to call a work stoppage this Dec. 23, the labor movement could score its first quick victory in decades...
Born in Budapest, Munk immigrated to Canada in his teens, after World War II. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before launching a consumer-electronics firm in the 1950s, only to see it succumb to U.S. and Japanese competition. Munk then built a chain of resorts in Fiji, called Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods...