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Which brings us to Richard Williams. In a house full of Jehovah's Witnesses, he puffs away on his cigarettes: pure Daddy Williams, an odd duck living in a world defined by Richard's rules. He said he would raise champs by keeping them off the junior circuit, and everyone said he was nuts. Well? He used to upset people by bragging on his girls; now he upsets them by sharing the stage. But look closely. The girls roll their eyes, but do they shove him aside...
Colton and Aboud plan to broaden their readership by cutting back on media jokes, but such stunts earn MH attention from a vain press--the Misfortune parody was published in FORTUNE too--which is pure gold for a Web start-up. In an exception to the aforementioned Entertaindom rule, MH has scored backing from venture capitalists, who hope its brand can be slapped on books, video games and movies. ("We tell them, 'Think Modern Humorist's Scuba School with Corey Haim,'" cracks Colton.) The money has been used to hire a staff of 10 and add multimedia. MH's "Summer...
Once upon a time, William F. Weld '66 had a future. His early days consisted of pure peaches and cream--an eminent lineage, a lauded stint at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, an impressive display of poise in the cesspool of Washington, D.C., and a calculated career change to the gubernatorial duties of his home state. For the militantly Democratic citizens of Massachusetts, electing blue-blooded, uberWASP Weld, was an absolute phenomenon...
...TIME! What fun! I rode the London underground today, niece in tow, both of us entirely buried in the latest book (and missing our stop completely). At least 25 percent of people I saw had "the book" tucked under their arms. Amazing! How glorious it is for a pure work of children's imagination to take the mainstream hostage. If you haven't already done it, there's no greater pleasure than reading/acting out "HP" to a child. Try it! - Justin (vindicated 25-year-old "Harry Potter...
...Potter" Promotes Reading as Pure Pleasure: Quite often, the New York Times' bestseller list seems to be more about I'm-smarter-than-you yuppie consumerism than about the books that people really read. I don't know anyone who finished "Infinite Jest." And do you remember the fuss over Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" (a bestselling dust-collector if there ever was one)? And who read Seamus Heaney's new translation of "Beowulf" other than this year's Whitbread Prize judges? "Harry Potter," on the other hand, will be read over and over and passed from...