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...both involve making stuff up. So it wasn't completely shocking when D.B.C. Pierre, the author of Vernon God Little (Canongate; 277 pages), which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize two weeks ago, rather dramatically announced that he wasn't D.B.C. Pierre at all. Turns out he's really Peter Finlay, 42, an Australian who earlier in life ran up enormous debts and bilked a close friend out of an apartment to feed his runaway drug and gambling habits (from which Pierre, as we might as well call him, is thankfully now recovering...
...back." PETER GREENSPUN, defense attorney for accused sniper John Allen Muhammad, who rehired his lawyers after two days of acting as his own attorney at his murder trial...
...time I was 21, I had my first record, and my career was thriving. I was shuttling between Connecticut and the folk venues of Greenwich Village and traveling the circuit throughout the country, getting to know kindred spirits such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. I lent my support by singing in Mississippi during the voter-registration drive for African Americans in 1964 and at rallies protesting the Vietnam...
Smith is well aware of the impact a good captain can have, as he was mentored by Peter Capouch ’02, the 5’6, 165-pound defenseman known for his intelligence and grit...
...Peter was a tremendous player. He made me better and taught me a lot,” Smith said. “Hopefully I can combine his skill with a 6’2 frame...