Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closed three deals with individual authors that were each in excess of that amount. Naturally, the agents are fanning the bidding frenzy. Says Evans: "It used to be you would see if there was substance to a book. Now if you say, 'I'd like to meet the person,' or 'Can we have a conversation?', some agents impatiently go to someone else...
...screen. But juvenile crime appears to be more widespread and vicious than ever before. "Burglars used to rob a house and then run away. Now they urinate or defecate in the home or burn it up before leaving," says Shawn Johnston, a forensic psychologist in Sacramento. "Thieves mugged a person and ran off. Now they beat their victims." Or rape or murder them...
...Michael "Trig" Tarazi '89 is a person of contrasts: madcap humor and solemnity, nationalism and iconoclasm...
...exerted an unprecedented degree of influence on the council this year, largely the result of his personal style. In person, Lee is very likeable, always quick with a quotable comment or one of his notoriously bad jokes...
...People who criticize the council in general or the council vote...attach my name to that because I'm chairperson," he says. "Anyone who reads The Crimson is going to see this Ken Lee person...