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...PUBLISHER, PRODUCER. In the late 1990s, Relentless, as he likes to be called, was jailed for passing bad checks. He turned to writing for therapy, and when he was sprung, restructured himself into a one-man publishing house. Now, with a Bluetooth hands-free in his ear and a stack of books in hand, he prowls tourist-filled 50th Street, approaching anyone who seems to fall within his target audience. Last year Relentless signed a four-book deal with St. Martin's Press. Two of his books have been optioned for films...
...decade and a half later, he's sitting on a stack of 18 best sellers. He has a 1,000-acre farm outside Charlottesville with 15 horses (Grisham moved his family from Oxford, Miss., after too many fans dropped by; he even surprised a Japanese couple getting married on his lawn) and a vast office with blond wood floors, movie memorabilia and sliding, brushed-metal screens...
...They come in to the office with a stack of dog-eared x-ray folders, a plastic grocery store bag full of reports and things printed off the Internet. Earnest and hopeful, they tell me they even apologize in advance to the patient crowd in the waiting room for the very long time they are about to take. They are coming in for a "second-opinion...
...baby name terrain. Wishing to quell an uprising by ethnically Kurdish Iranians in the north, the government banned Kurdish names. A Kurdish couple I know managed one for their baby, but only by showing up at the registry office with a giant box of pastry and a stack of cash for the name clerk...
...selected the whole library, and chose the ?Stack? command. The program gathered identical pictures taken at the same time, hiding all but one. This is helpful if you have, say, over 2,000 shots of your wedding (which my wife...