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...like getting to a party and discovering that your friends hired a caterer; his professionalism makes him an automatic confidence booster for audiences. That's not to say there's any guarantee about his surroundings. As a 52-year-old man with over a hundred credits to his name, Buscemi has long been an egalitarian performer, turning up in almost as many Big Daddys as Big Lebowskis and playing an inordinate amount of creeps and whiners...
That's just what a Swedish author calling himself J.D. California (real name: Fredrik Colting) tried to do, in a book named 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. But just before his death, the ever-vigilant Salinger sent his lawyers after California and his tiny publisher, Windupbird Publishing, suing them in June in federal court in Manhattan. The judge, Deborah Batts, sided with Salinger, indefinitely banning the publication of the book in this country. (It had been published in Britain.) The judge rejected the argument that the book was a parody, which would have been legally permissible. The judge...
...standard of living as determined by GDP. And the Genuine Progress Indicator, which incorporates aspects of social welfare such as income equity, pollution, and access to health care. In the international community, perhaps the biggest nudge has come from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who commissioned a report by marquee-name economists, including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, to find alternatives to what he calls "GDP fetishism". (See the best business deals...
Colleen M. Berryessa '11 wants to start a crime club. The name probably sounded odd when you first saw her e-mail this week. A club...for crime? But it seemed perfectly logical to Berryessa, a government concentrator. She is really interested in crime (studying it, not committing it!), and she thought maybe others would...
Jerome David Salinger was born in New York on Jan. 1, 1919. His mother was a Scots-born Protestant who changed her name from Marie to Miriam to accommodate her Jewish in-laws. His father Solomon was a food importer who was successful enough by the time Salinger turned 13 to move the family to Park Avenue and enroll his underachieving son in a Manhattan private school. Salinger flunked out within two years. He was then packed off to Valley Forge Military Academy, outside Philadelphia. It would later be the model for Pencey Prep, the school Caulfield runs away from...