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...corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St., you are standing in the presence of greatness. Tomorrow, Publishers Weekly—the magazine bible of the publishing industry—will present Frank Kramer, proprietor of Harvard Book Store, with the 2002 Bookseller of the Year award. The ceremony, which is to be held at Book Expo America, conveniently overlaps with Harvard Book Store’s 70th anniversary...
...when I showed up at Raratu Lodge, near Havelock North on North Island, ready to get down to the ranch and shear some sheep, proprietor Pete Hill was quietly amused. Forget New Zealand's shepherding heritage?nothing could get him to herd sheep, even if he had any. "Field lice," as he called them, were far too stupid and too prone to disease. Seeing my city slicker's crushed expression, he did offer me the chance to douse a few of his dairy cows with a de-worming bath, but the intermittent late summer showers ruled that...
Besides Pinsky, the panel of judges is comprised of Louisa Solano, Grolier’s proprietor, and Rafael Campo, an accomplished poet and the 1996 winner of a poetry award from the Lambda Literary Foundation, which promotes gay and lesbian literature...
...latest case involves William Peterson, proprietor of Crazy Billy’s Park Liquors in Long Island. In 1995, Peterson hired two men to firebomb two of his rivals, Bottles & Cases and Bottle Bargains. Last fall a jury found Peterson guilty but a judge has yet to hand down sentence in the case...
...that the easy success of my first caper was not a fluke, I decided to try and steal something else. This time, with a gun. Unfortunately, there is some sort of waiting period for purchasing a handgun. After explaining the pressures of my column deadline to Winthrop Vanderbilt, the proprietor of the Cambridge Shooting Shoppe, he suggested that I consider using illegal fireworks instead of guns. It wasn’t ideal, but I bought $700 worth...