Word: simone
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...Complicated" appears in a blurb on the jacket of Summer of Deliverance (Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $24), Christopher Dickey's loving, ruthless portrait of his father, the poet-novelist James Dickey. In the blurb, the novelist Pat Conroy writes, "If there ever lived a more complicated father, husband, and writer than James Dickey, I have not heard...
...gambling goes, Powerball isn't the smartest use of one's money. "We know the arithmetic, and it's not only a bad bet, it's actually a very bad bet," warns Gary Simon, also a statistician, at New York University. "The odds are so high, and [the Powerball administrators] immediately take 50 [cents] of the dollar off the top. If you're at the horse races, they take about 15[cents] of the dollar before returning the rest of the money to the public. The casinos take something like a nickel or a dime, depending on the game...
Then there is the number that really catches Redstone's eye: Viacom stock has more than doubled in 12 months, to about $66. The run has been fueled by other developments in Viacom's vast empire, including the sell-off of most of book publisher Simon & Schuster for $4.6 billion, and a hot streak of hit movies, including Titanic. But it would not have been possible without the turn at Blockbuster, which contributes a third of Viacom's annual revenue...
...each other and honest. I found it to be a lovely change from the Capitol." That's not necessarily a reflection on all of official Washington. Blackman just finished writing Seasons of Her Life, a biography of Secretary of State Madeline Albright, which will be released this fall by Simon & Schuster/Scribner. Blackman has known Albright since 1984, when the future Secretary worked on Geraldine Ferraro's vice-presidential campaign, and promises some revelations in the book...
...Chinese. After years of expressing regret quietly in Japan, Chu-Ki-Nren members are seeking to apologize to American audiences, but Washington's ban on visas for war criminals is preventing them. Convinced, however, that the group's regrets should be heard, RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER, associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, has organized a trans-Pacific video conference, to take place on the Internet Aug. 16 and be covered by Japan's top TV network, NHK. Panelists in Los Angeles will question four Chu-Ki-Nren members in Tokyo, among them...