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When St. Martin's press begins promoting the latest work from novelist K'wan next month, the campaign won't look like the marketing for, say, the corporate thrillers of Joseph Finder. Funkmaster Flex, the hip-hop evangelist, is closer to the flavor. K'wan's reading audience is loyal--he has more than 400,000 books in print. But titles like Gangsta, Road Dawgz and his latest, Hood Rat, have captured an audience well outside St. Martin's usual purview. So instead of signings at Barnes & Noble, St. Martin's is planning giveaways and readings in barber shops...
...DIED. Joseph Kauffman, 84, an architect of the Peace Corps, which was launched by President Kennedy in 1961; in Madison, Wisconsin. As the first director of training for the volunteer foreign-aid force, he designed the boot camp-like regimen carried out for recruits at 70 college campuses across the U.S. Among its features: 7 a.m.-to-10 p.m. workdays six days a week, and instruction in foreign languages, technical job skills and medical issues...
...than 100,000 miles [161,000 km] without falling apart? What is so difficult about being consumer friendly? What is so difficult about offering a 100,000-mile guarantee and toll-free roadside assistance? Greed captured U.S. car companies 30 years ago, and Ford is being destroyed by it. Joseph P. Nolan Waterbury, Connecticut...
...Medical School became the most recent Harvard organ in search of a new chief executive yesterday when Dean Joseph B. Martin announced that he would conclude his term in July.The Medical School will now begin a dean search at the same time as Harvard looks for a new president and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seeks to find a new dean.The search won’t be concluded for several months. Interim President Derek C. Bok, who has already said that he will not select the next Faculty dean himself, has chosen as well to defer this decision...
...citizen Michael Joseph Pepe, 53, was arrested in June and charged with sexually abusing girls ranging in age from eight to 13 years. Pepe, who has remained silent since his arrest, is still in a Cambodian prison awaiting deportation...