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...restless intellect and you can only channel so much of that into legal work, and he has found a terrific secondary outlet for it,” says George Andreou ’87, Begley’s editor at Alfred A. Knopf. “I don’t have a vision of Louis snoozing in a hammock on Memorial Day weekend...
...magazines schooled him in another creative outlet, too. Updike came of age during the heyday of so-called “light verse”—brief rhymes based on word play—and as his vocabulary matured the genre afforded him a crack at verbal virtuosity...
...sits playing a video game on his TV while a bouncing ball frantically tries to get his attention. It nudges him, gets in his face and finally knocks the power cord out of the outlet. At last the boy gets the message, stands up and takes the ball outside to play. The tag line: YOUR BALL NEEDS...
...media outlet wishing to operate in China must compromise, as News Corp. officials know. In 1993, the company removed the BBC from its Chinese-language Star satellite network-which at the time had government permission to be shown in hotels and foreign compounds-after the British news service irritated Beijing with a series critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. But with 340 million TV households, China is a plummy market awaiting those who gain the government's favor. Last year, advertising reached $2.7 billion, up 11% over the year before. And Beijing is showing signs of loosening up. Earlier this year...
...John Deere X595, McCall, 34, manicures his lawn in a quick 20 minutes, smoking a cigar while he cuts the grass--thanks to an automatic transmission, cruise control and power steering that makes one-handed driving a snap. He can plug a CD player into the 12-volt outlet and sip a beverage from the cup holder. There's enough juice under the hood--with a "high torque," liquid-cooled 24-h.p. engine--to tote his three sons in a wagon. "If you ask my wife, it's a toy, and she's right," he says. The price...