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...King, a press agent sees his client at his worst and must present him at his best. The trick was to paint a heroic portrait, of a person with plenty to hide, and sell it to a columnist who'll sell it to the public. You'd plant or leak favorable items and try to suppress the scandalous ones. Publicity is the peddler's art, whose colors are rouge and noir, whose techniques are wheedling, pleading, trading and - if the press agent is Sidney Falco - lying, threatening and blackmailing...
Like a boxer past his prime, Lee Ho Dong can't resist coming out of his corner for a good brawl?even when no one is cheering for him anymore. The president of the Korean Power Plant Industry Union has spent the past two weeks huddled in an unheated tent pitched on the paving stones behind Seoul's Myeongdong Cathedral, the time-honored sanctuary of unionists and student rebels on the run. Lee and 20 other union members took refuge after police issued arrest warrants accusing them of launching illegal strikes to protest the government's plan to sell power...
...Captain (Geordie F. Broadwater ’04), is the titular father, a career army man and respected amateur scientist, driven to insanity by his wife Laura (Catherine B. Gowl ’02) as she schemes to obtain control over their daughter Bertha’s education. Laura plant seeds of suspicion in the Captain’s mind about the true paternity of Bertha and about his very ability to reason. This self-doubt festers into violence and madness, and Laura’s triumph in controlling both her daughter and husband’s fate...
...Genzyme plant already sits on Harvard’s land. Almost a decade ago, the company was attracted to the plot by the Boston Redevelopment Authority who envisioned a science park opposite the Business School’s Western Ave. frontage...
Genzyme Vice President of Engineering and Facility Development Henry J. Fitzgerald said last spring that Genzyme had built with the idea in mind that they’d soon have company. While the plant sits lonely today, Genzyme could still form the “anchor” for big biotech in Allston...