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...Ralph Lauren sweater, the gold Cartier bracelet and the white S500 Mercedes. Her home--a stylishly refurbished Pennsylvania farmhouse on 43 acres--is a grand monument to a blockbuster career that the author has painstakingly built from the ground up. Sometimes called the female John Grisham, Scottoline (pronounced Scot-oh-lee-nee) is a star among the burgeoning ranks of lawyers turned best-selling novelists. Devil's Corner (HarperCollins; 393 pages), her 12th book, will arrive in bookstores on May 31, and in light of the advance orders at Amazon.com it is well on its way to becoming her seventh...
...Possibly, that may turn out to be true. But Blair has surely learned that his leadership works best when Brown helps. After the Scot put his feud with Blair aside last month to plunge into a campaign that needed him badly, according to the polls, decisions were made smoothly. Blair and Brown themselves seemed to relish being good friends again. They were "laughing like they did 10 years ago" said one Labour veteran, as they barnstormed together around the country - and the bonhomie did not hurt with voters, either. The ministerial reshuffle Blair announced after the election promoted enough Brown...
Soon after his appointment by Dwight Eisenhower, he began earning a reputation as "the best coalition builder ever to sit on the Supreme Court," says L.A. Scot Powe Jr., a University of Texas law professor and former clerk to Justice William O. Douglas. Brennan has never relinquished the role. A dedicated pragmatist, the onetime New Jersey labor lawyer now uses his negotiating skills to bring the shifting middle of the court--Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Byron White--closer to the liberal corner that he shares with Thurgood Marshall and often John Paul Stevens. A hesitating colleague is likely...
Yesterday Gross told four members of the Harvard Environmental Action Committee (EAC) that he hopes to create a committee of students and faculty to examine the possibility of renewable energy purchased by Harvard, according to Scot M. Miller ’07, co-chair...
...learned that Prime Minister MacDonald, then heading a Labor Cabinet, was being forced into resignation by the impossible Dole demands of the Labor Party. On his own royal initiative George V arrived unexpectedly in London. Friends of the King in a position to know say that he bucked up Scot MacDonald when the Prime Minister offered to step down and persuaded Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin to enter and support the present "National Government" under Mr. Macdonald. This new government presented themselves as the only group able to keep Sterling on the gold standard and avoid the inflation into which...