Word: simons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book and his experience in the ad business to promote it. He was tireless. "The war was won in the trenches," he says, "from one bookstore to another." The book grew from a regional phenomenon into a national hit, reaching the paperback best-seller lists last year. That prompted Simon & Schuster to pay $4.2 million for The Christmas Box and its prequel, Timepiece, putting Evans into Marcia Clark's stellar company...
...Simon & Schuster Consumer Group president Jack Romanos believes The Christmas Box is an evergreen that will remain "under the Christmas tree for many years to come." Which is just what Evans, still evangelizing, is after. "Our goal is to make history with this book," he says. "It heals people and changes their lives...
...What on earth has happened to those nice, compassionate Canadians? ... [Is this] the end of Canada's reputation for civility, tolerance and compromise? Are Canadians acquiring some of the survival-of-the-fittest traits for which they so often lambaste their American neighbors?" --The Boston Globe's misguided Bernard Simon, commenting on various levels of Canadian government cutbacks to control the national deficit
Then, starting in the late 1960s, three paleontologists - Harry Whittington of the University of Cambridge in England and his two students, Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris - embarked on a methodical re-examination of the Burgess Shale fossils. Under bright lights and powerful microscopes, they coaxed fine-grain anatomical detail from the shale's stony secrets: the remains of small but substantial animals that were overtaken by a roaring underwater mudslide 515 million years ago and swept into water so deep and oxygen-free that the bacteria that should have decayed their tissues couldn't survive. Preserved were not just...
...DIED. SIMON RIFKIND, 94, lawyer and judge; in New York City. Rifkind fought for the cream of society and the wretched of the earth. As General Eisenhower's adviser on Jewish affairs, he pushed for aid to Holocaust victims and immigration to Palestine. As a star attorney, he represented Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in actions against probing author William Manchester and prying photographer Ronald Galella...