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...documents paint a very different picture from the one put forth in the media following Suleman's hiring a public-relations agent less than a week after the octuplets' birth. Joann Killeen, president of the Killeen Furtney Group, was hired to field book, movie and TV offers for her client. During an interview on Larry King Live on Feb. 3, Killeen portrayed Suleman as a "wonderful woman." "She's smart, she's bright, she's articulate, she's well educated. She is just a delight. And I can't wait for the media to get to meet her," Killeen said...
...answer may partly depend on Suleman. She has yet to divulge who helped her get pregnant with the octuplets. But she has hired a p.r. firm and is rumored to be weighing seven-figure offers for her first televised interview. Her publicist, Joann Killeen, told reporters, "As soon as she's able, she will tell her story, and it's an amazing story." Doctors, moms and ethicists are all ears...
...Katherine O’Donnell battled in a hard-fought match featuring wild momentum swings and lengthy rallies, ultimately prevailing, 2-9, 9-6, 10-8, 9-0, to raise her season record to 6-0.In the crucial third game, O’Donnell came from behind against Bantam JoAnn Jee to set up the victory.Freshman Nirasha Guruge, playing at the top flight in place of Tiong, fell 3-0, while No. 7 freshman Cece Cortes, playing her first collegiate match, prevailed 3-0, to tally the final score.Ranked No. 3 in the country, Trinity represented the most formidable opponent that...
...Scholastic Corporation bought the U.S. rights to a young-adult fantasy novel by an unknown English author for $105,000. That was a lot of money at the time, especially to the not yet ultra-rich Joann Rowling, but it turned out to be the bargain of the century - that one, and probably this one too. Over the next decade or so Scholastic went on to print (spoiler alert!) over 140 million Harry Potter books. (Read about Harry Potter's last adventure here...
...south of modern-day Baghdad - has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Despite its description by Greek historians as a center of political power, the fables tend to overshadow any sense of what the city was actually like. "Everyone knows the name and the legends of Babylon," says Francis Joannès, a professor of ancient history and Mesopotamia at the Sorbonne. "But what people don't necessarily know is its reality...