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...also given sufficient moola to hire top-tier talent, who were put on handsome retainers. Tom Wolfe was rumored to be paid $12 a word; Michael Lewis $50K an article. David Margolick was poached from Vanity Fair, where the contributing editor's retainer was well into six figures. Less renowned staff writers were said to make over $150,000 a year. Deputy editor Amy Stevens was making north of $400,000, several colleagues said. Even some of the bloggers were hitting the $120,000 mark...
Harvard Law School Professor Michael J. Klarman, another of the new honorees, said the award is likely due to his book “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” which won the Bancroft Prize...
...Officers were dispatched to Quincy House Dining Hall to investigate a report of broken glass. Upon arrival, officers reported that windows were broken and bread crates had been thrown around the area. The officers located the individual who became combative with officers. Michael Crawford of Duxbury, MA, was charged with malicious destruction of property and placed under arrest...
...Michael Crichton's posthumous book is about PIRATES. Even in death, the man is frighteningly prescient...
...Fashioned Star No question that Efron is a movie star, but of what era? Adept at comedy and solemnity, synthesizing Michael J. Fox and David Cassidy in their early adorable phases, he is, so far, a movie anachronism - a throwback to when there was a big market for nice. Utterly at ease in the camera's gaze, he's not a preener; he gives the impression of being an O.K. guy who in his spare time is also this teen heartthrob. Which may be a higher form of acting: star acting...