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...hope to nab a big publishing deal and follow in the footsteps of someone like Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, you'll have to ask some hard questions about your book first. "Publishers decide on the basis that no one reads anymore. So they ask, 'Can we promote this?'" cautions Tristine Rainer, founder of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, Calif. Your memoir is marketable, according to Rainer, if it provides a glimpse into a unique world, reflects the social issues of a larger group or is just great writing. Even if you meet these criteria, convincing...
...People from Harvard and MIT don't really drink or buy their alcohol in Cambridge," he said, referring to results from recent sting operations designed to nab underage drinkers. "I guess you don't buy in your own backyard...
...Robert Livingston of Louisiana also has a black belt in Taekwondo and an instinct for the kill. If he's in a better position than his Republican competitors to nab the speakership, it's because Gingrich himself gave him a head start. In February the 55-year-old Livingston told colleagues that should Gingrich run for President in 2000, he wanted to take over. Four years earlier, Gingrich had handpicked Livingston--at the time the fifth-ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee--to become the panel's chairman. Livingston ultimately used this perch of patronage to knife his benefactor: wielding...
...only did the team nab a first-place finish at the Greater Boston Championships in April, but Gonzalez stole the show at the Ivy League Golf Championships three days earlier by nabbing the Individual Medal with a two-day, three-over-par 73 performance...
...changed hands, many of them gobbled up by small chains or media conglomerates. Result: a rapid dwindling of local programming in favor of standardized music, talk and news, often packaged in distant corporate headquarters. "People are totally offended by what's on the air," attorney Louis Hiken told an NAB panel last week, deploring coast-to-coast "easy-listening stations selling Dodge Caravans, beer and tampons...