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...restaurant's financial crisis stems from a number of factors, including the recession and the failure of a second Wursthaus restaurant on Cape Cod, Cardullo said. Cardullo's Cape Cod Wursthaus effort closed two months ago after a 12-year stint and lost him a million dollars...
After graduating from Dartmouth in 1966 and the University of Minnesota Law School in 1970, he won a prestigious clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, but then took an unusual turn, doing a stint in the Marines from...
...Flagstaff, Arizona, load warm clothes into their station wagon and set off to the west on an 800-km (500-mile) trip across the desert. Their destination: Palomar Mountain, site of the mighty Hale telescope, among others. There, using a smaller Schmidt telescope, they begin a seven-night stint of sentry duty...
...Jaye Davidson, 25, now must suffer the intrusion of instant celebrity. Davidson worked in fashion (including a stint for Princess Di's couturiers) and had never considered acting before Jordan's casting director saw star quality in Jaye's careless beauty and recommended a screen test. "I hope it doesn't sound arrogant," the new screen sensation says, "but I wasn't scared. When I was told I had got the part, I just put the phone down and laughed my head off. But when I saw the whole script, I thought, dear God, how am I going...
...story of Matthiessen's life sounds like a colorful adventure tale. The son of a New York City Social Register architect, he had already, by the time he graduated from Yale, studied at the Sorbonne, served in the Navy and sold fiction to the Atlantic. After a short stint teaching writing at Yale, followed by a spell in Paris, he began working as a commercial fisherman to support his art. Then, separated from his first wife (he has had three, and four children), he loaded a few books, a gun and a sleeping bag into his Ford convertible...