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...their President to do what is right. You can make wrong decisions as long as they are for the right reasons. And keep listening to the voters. Even a big mandate is only good as long as it lasts, and mandates don't usually last long--generally two months. OLIVIA GOLDSMITH Author, The First Wives Club...
...talking about betrayal," says First Wives author Olivia Goldsmith, who was herself downsized by divorce. "These guys are stealing not only the present but also the past. And after they steal part of your life, then they steal your property." After Goldsmith wrote the best-selling novel in 1992, her publisher sponsored a First Wife contest. "We received 1,500 letters, and they were tragic," she says. "I had never been so depressed." (The winning entry was like so many others: a husband runs off with his secretary after 23 years of marriage, leaving the wife to cope with...
...film has woman-to-woman origins, though it ended up in the guiding hands of men. Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing bought the rights to the Olivia Goldsmith novel when it was still just an idea and Lansing was still a producer. After she took over the studio, she handed the project to the prolific Scott Rudin (who produced Clueless and The Firm), who in turn hired Steel Magnolias screenwriter Robert Harling. Admittedly not a woman, Harling says he did bring some personal insight to the first-wife mind-set. "They tell you to write what you know," he says...
...Raqeeb M. Haque '00, Kathryn M. Hayes '00; North Yard: Brian J. Rosenthal '00, Beth A. Stewart '00, Samuel C. Cohen '00, Justin M. Krebs '00, John Paul Rollert '00, C.J. Mahoney '00; Southeast Yard: Kathleen E. Campbell '00, Chris-Tia E. Donaldson '00, E. Sonny Elizondo '00, Guckenberger, Olivia Verma '00, Robert S. Schwartz '00; Southwest Yard: Trevor S. Blake '00, Mark D. Palmenter '00, Sam Spital '00, Megan V.R. Strackbein...
...aging takes place at the cellular level, and if cells did not grow old, biological aging might be slowed. But what drives the process? Why do some cells accumulate dysfunction with time? And can that dysfunction be prevented or slowed? Before those questions can be answered, cautions Baylor professor Olivia Pereira-Smith, who researches the genetics of aging, "we have to find the genes first...