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...from a crime of passion - brought him a $1.1 million deal from New York's Hyperion Books and billing as the next John Grisham. He got $1 million for his next thriller, The Job, about an ambitious young salesman enmeshed in a web of deceit. Like its predecessor, the book sold decently but failed to earn back the advance. "On the book tour, I could sense it was tanking," Kennedy recalls. "I was 41. I decided I was going off to write what I wanted...
...consistent message proved just as elusive. Inconsistency has been the norm ever since 500,000 people took to Hong Kong's streets on July 1, 2003 to protest everything from a controversial security bill to the mishandling of the SARS crisis to Tsang's unpopular predecessor, Tung Chee-hwa. It may have started out as a pro-democracy march, but democracy is not necessarily foremost on the minds of the marchers. If you missed the "One Person, One Vote!" placards carried by democracy advocates (helpfully printed in Sunday's edition of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper), it would have...
Perhaps it’s more of a marathon, if the past is any indication. But even though her predecessor spent nearly two decades wearing Crimson and constantly bargaining with the admissions office for players, it will take time to determine whether Green will stay at Harvard that long...
Alistair Darling doesn't flinch but he is a brave man, willing to step into the biggest shoes in government. He inherits a robust economy with record employment, low inflation and a history of sustained growth, an achievement that's the proudest boast of his predecessor, now the Prime Minister, who will expect Darling to maintain the steady course set over New Labour's first decade in office...
Darling's appointment signals continuity but Brown's constant mantra of recent weeks has been change, a woolly promise to be different from his predecessor, which the politician again invoked as he stood poised to enter Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister. The list of new ministers and departures in the style and presentation of the reshuffle have given the first hints of what form this change may take...