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...lighthearted year-end Villain of the Year poll. And in December an unauthorized biography by journalist Tom Bower-which seems to try the fancy trick of painting Branson as both a Machiavellian schemer and a reckless fool-ranked alongside Branson's own autobiography on the Sunday Times business best-seller list. (Branson has sued Bower for libel over a newspaper article...
Nobody will wear No. 4 again for Harvard. That number forever belongs to the man who served Harvard for over seven decades, first as a seller of programs outside of Harvard Stadium...
...most difficult job in the universe, being an ex-President must surely be the most sublime. The speaking fees and board appointments pay enough to finance homes in any vacation spot one might fancy. Everything one says is wise, and everything one writes goes straight to the best-seller list. Ex-Presidents do good works, make the occasional peacemaking mission, oversee the construction of a shrine for their White House relics. The biggest payoff of all as a former President transubstantiates from pol to statesman is seeing the traits that annoyed and enraged people while he was in office--Harry...
...adult Amy has also made it through, at least so far, the peculiar ordeal of celebrity. It began after The Joy Luck Club ascended from the status of best seller to classic-in-embryo, when its author began facing demands to utter windy, geopolitical profundities. "People would ask me about trade sanctions in China. They'd ask me about the 1 million missing baby girls. I saw it as a great danger that people would see the book as some sort of template for how Chinese families are," she says. "To me, my family was the most weird entity...
...channels of pop-culture noise? Is there some inalienable right to affordable Cinemax that the Founding Fathers missed? Finding the price point for cable TV is no more the government's job than holding down those ridiculous Coke prices at the multiplex. It's for the buyer and the seller to work out for themselves...