Word: mavens
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...hours of the night, Mollie is still perky and apt to brandish a tray of home-made cookies at any moment. In between endless editing sessions, Mollie lives a secret existence as a high-powered political intern, fashion retail maven and fitness guru with nary a complaint...
...times may be a’changing, but FM’s insatiable desire for word games remains strong. Her freshman year, outgoing FM chair Rachel E. Dry interviewed local crossword-writing maven, Brendan Emmett Quigley. Three years later, Quigley returns to our pages with a very special FM-related puzzle. Enjoy...
KELLY CONLIN Magazine Maven In October Primedia, publisher of more than 250 specialty magazines like Motor Trend and Soap Opera Digest, named Conlin, 43, its CEO, ending a seven-month search. He had previously headed technology publisher International Data Group, where he helped launch the popular For Dummies book series. Conlin hopes to leverage Primedia's enthusiast titles in a new way, through toys. Gamemaker THQ will release a PC game under Primedia's Hot Rod name, while Radio Shack is selling a Super Street remote-controlled...
...wouldn't be scared? Of course I'm scared. The last place I would ever want to go is prison." MARTHA STEWART, homemaking maven, who faces trial in January on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice, to ABC's Barbara Walters in an interview that will air in November...
JILL GREENTHAL Media Maven In the media business, Greenthal, 47, is a rainmaker, having wrangled, among other things, the $50 billion merger of AT&T and cable operator TCI in 1998. She recently left Credit Suisse First Boston, where she comanaged the global-media investment-banking practice, to join private investment firm Blackstone Group. There she will continue to work with media companies as a senior managing director for the firm's growing mergers and acquisitions business...