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...hottest gets, shelling out millions in advances. Andrew Ross Sorkin will write a behind-the-scenes account of the Wall Street crisis, Too Big to Fail, for Viking, while his New York Times colleague Joe Nocera, along with Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean, will do a long-term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, is writing Six Days That Shook the World for Penguin Press, which examines the week when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was bought...
...covering a breaking crisis isn't easy, especially for book publishers, as editors call for rewrites or dramatic changes in the publishing lag time. "There seems to be two approaches: do it quickly or wait and take the longer-term view," says Will Weisser, associate publisher of Portfolio, a Penguin imprint, who says most of their business authors are being asked to expedite books already under way. One is Eric Janszen, whose The Post Catastrophe Economy, a historical account of the economy and where it is headed, was supposed to be published in August 2009. With the crisis deepening, Portfolio...
...able to at least get someone to understand where I'm coming from. They may ultimately disagree, but they disagree from a position of respect and understanding. It takes a little bit of explanation [to show] that we're defending the First Amendment, that [the Constitution] is the long-term beneficiary...
...paper by Harvard Business School professor Gregory M. Barron explores the role of experience in promoting the gambler’s fallacy, a notion that chance and randomness correct themselves in the short term. The study, written by Barron and Harvard doctoral student Stephen Leider, argues that the fallacy has a heightened effect on the decision-making of people who experience a series of events in real time versus people who receive a complete description of the same events at a later point in time. According to Barron, the fallacy applies in many situations, including simple scenarios such as casino...
...course at Harvard” and discussed his role at PBHA since 1974. “A good thing cannot be killed, spoilt or ruined,” he said. “The best that is in Brooks House will always flourish and redeem Harvard in the long term...