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...Twain dominates the room, with his white suit, wild hair and mischievous eye. His is an unexpected, ironic presence in a powerful politician's office-Twain assumed that all politicians were felonious-and Reid's explanation that the pseudonym Mark Twain was born in Nevada because Samuel Langhorne Clemens took his first newspaper job at the Virginia City, Nev., Territorial Enterprise doesn't fully explain the place of honor...
...with a pseudonym. Most of it came from the refinancing of a 1999 Brazilian deal, under which Bank of America raised $300 million from U.S. investors to acquire a stake in Parmalat's Brazilian group. News of the transaction sent Parmalat stock soaring 17% in a single day, as investors were cheered by the idea that Americans were buying into the company. The transaction is now a central element of Bondi's case against the bank; he says it made a loan look like an equity infusion, a charge the bank denies. The refinancing was even more controversial: Sala admitted...
Under the pseudonym William August, Caimi played small parts in films such as last summer’s “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” which starred Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate. He also appeared in a number of television shows, including NBC’s “American Dreams.” He is currently working on “Bittersweet Place,” an independent film that will be released next year...
...DIED. FRAN?OISE SAGAN, 69, rebellious intellectual and writer; in Honfleur, France. Born Fran?oise Quoirez, she published her first book, Bonjour Tristesse, under the pseudonym Sagan in 1954 when she was 18 years old. A precocious novel of sexual disillusionment, it became a huge hit at home and sold more than a million copies in the U.S. Known for her love of drinking, fast cars and gambling as much as for her influential friendships with the likes of Tennessee Williams and French President Fran?ois Mitterrand, Sagan went on to write more than 50 books and plays over her career...
...book to be written." Determined to set foreigners straight about his adopted home, Clarke began compiling anecdotes. But he wanted a sexier protagonist than himself, so he opted for fiction and invented Paul West, "a cross between Hugh Grant and David Beckham." He also wanted to hide behind a pseudonym, not to avoid trouble with his employers, "but because if the book failed, I'd look like an idiot." That danger having receded, Clarke is using his own name for the U.K. edition. "I was a little worried when I started giving readings in Paris, since I'm clearly...