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...furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell of Success...
...Rimsky says this reputation was more of a function of the thin fire doors—which made eavesdropping inevitable—rather than the type of person that chose to live there...
...Officers were dispatched to Longfellow Hall to search for a suspicious individual claiming to be a security guard “checking the offices.” The suspect is described as a 40-year-old 5 foot 7 inch white male, with brown hair and a thin face wearing a blue jacket, brown beret and gray shoes and carrying a blue backpack. Officers were unable to locate the suspect...
...spreading itself too thin, Legend may be playing right into Dell's hands. So far, most of the market share Dell has captured has come from rival foreign brands in the corporate client space and not from Legend itself. Now Dell has to start pushing its way into the consciousness of ordinary consumers and mid-sized corporations, where the next wave of mainland computerization is cresting. But selling desktops to the masses is Legend's turf-and Dell might find it's a long march to total global domination...
...epic voyage, drifting down all 4,880 km of Southeast Asia's longest river. Gargan begins at the Mekong's source in the thin air of the Tibetan plateau and goes with the flow until it reaches the South China Sea. En route through China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam?all countries nursing scars from a tumultuous and bloody century?he introduces us to a mElange of characters: yak herders, opium farmers, European backpackers, jaded aid workers, Vietnam vets?and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. Some of those he meets seem unaffected by the horrors of the region's recent past...