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...tumor was, Stephanie was just as aggressive," says McGrath. "When I handed her the galleys, she pulled off her oxygen mask and pointed out an error in the typeface." In June, Williams finally held copies of her novel, Enter Sandman, printed months ahead of schedule. At the book's launch party three weeks before her death, Williams, thin and weak and wearing an outfit belonging to McGrath's 9-year-old daughter, told a crowd of friends and colleagues that writing the book was so rewarding that the past few months had been the best time of her life...
...next tune. His first one had, indeed, been about a gypsy girl—“Shiny,” from the Decemberists’ debut EP—and now the mass of music-loving intellectuals were probably, on the whole, expecting their hero to launch into a number with lyrics culled directly from real-life experiences. So it was little surprise that an even larger collective giggle erupted when the next song turned out to be the beautiful, but sublimely fictional, “My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist...
...story: Having amassed an unmanageable number of contacts over the course of Napster’s legal battle, Sean Parker had an idea for an electronic address book tool that would automatically organize and update contact information. Plaxo partnered with Sequoia Capital to launch the project. To date, Sequoia has helped Plaxo raise $20 million in venture money. Four years later, Plaxo now has more than five million users and is on its way to becoming a profitable corporation. The only thing Plaxo doesn’t have is Parker, who left the company in April of last year...
Walsh noted that while the cell structure of al Qaeda currently makes it difficult for the group to launch the complex scientific research needed to develop nuclear weapons, the terror network is expanding—and there is a large amount of unsecured nuclear material in the world...
...don’t intend to replay the argument against PetroChina or Harvard’s stake in it. The students who helped launch the divestment campaign have made a compelling case that the Sudanese government is perpetrating genocide and that Harvard, through its stake in PetroChina, is complicit in Sudan’s actions. You can find more information on the issue at www.harvarddivest.com. Most of the facts that divestment advocates cite are not disputed, but it’s worth addressing a few of the claims made by Harvard’s apologists...