Word: salem
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...book, Burrough and Helyar also portray him as a Machiavellian cutthroat who betrayed numerous colleagues on his way - to the top, a spendthrift who moved the RJR Nabisco headquarters to Atlanta -- callously firing thousands of employees in the process -- in part because he didn't like "bucolic" Winston-Salem, and a derelict CEO who repeatedly misled his shareholders, his employees and his board of directors...
Giardi, who is from Salem, Mass., turned downthe offer, he says, because he was a longtime fanof Harvard sports and had wanted to attend theCollege "since I was a little...
...undergo painful surgery on his hip joints; when he was a child, the condition and his size kept him from participating in sports. But he compensated by writing and illustrating his own books (starting at age six) and with music and humor and theater. He grew up in South Salem, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, the son of Republican parents who owned a pair of women's clothing stores...
Blier is author of a number of books, most recently The Danger of Art: Anomie, Alchemy and African Vodun, a study of the voodoo traditions of Haiti, NewOrleans, and Salem, Mass. and their African roots...
Bresler's book, which served as the basis of the tour, describes the impact of the Salem witch trials on Boston and Harvard College and includes two self-guided tours similar to the Freedom Trail...