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Before he caught united airlines flight 93 from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco on Sept. 11, Todd Beamer was engaged in a kind of soul searching that we have come to think of as very post-9/11. In Among the Heroes (HarperCollins), New York Times reporter Jere Longman writes that Beamer was tired of leaving his family for business. He was working at home more often. He had postponed his sales trip by one day to spend time with his sons and planned, after a day's work, to catch the red-eye home that night...
...September 11, HarperCollins will also publish "Among the Heroes: The Story of United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back" by Jere Longman. The publisher describes this as "the definitive account of Flight 93's last doomed and heroic moments by the NYT reporter who covered the story." 10-city author tour...
...film’s protagonist is one such computer addict. Richard Longman, played by Boys Don’t Cry’s Peter Sarsgaard, has spent the last year essentially hibernating, living off the windfalls of a successful business venture while playing video games and watching porn...
...elderly are quick -- and correct -- to denounce the low savings rate among the young. But the growing reliance on subsidies from older generations is more a function of despair than greed, reflecting the downward mobility of millions of young families. "Inheritance looms larger by default," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America. "Increasingly, the only way for the young middle class to stay in the middle class is to inherit the trappings...
...million copies of Roget's Thesaurus have been sold. Half a dozen American publishers put out their own versions, and most of them sniff at the idea of any major updating or expurgating. St. Martin's, the New York publisher that has issued the most recent authorized Longman edition, will decide this summer whether to take on the revised version. "There has been a marked change in the way people look at thesauruses," says St. Martin's President Tom McCormack. "Originally they were illustrative; they just listed synonyms. Now they are normative, because people use the thesaurus...