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Patterson grew up in a small town in upstate New York. He always wanted to be a writer, but he didn't find it necessary to starve along the way: he had a highly successful career in advertising, including a six-year run as chairman of J. Walter Thompson in North America. But he never gave up on his dream. In 1977 his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, won an Edgar Award, the Oscar of the mystery world, although it wasn't a big commercial success. His evolution into James Patterson, The Man Who Only Writes Best Sellers...
...leaders’ reaction to controversy. On the surface, Summers is depicted as brash and opinionated while Bok is lauded as a talented negotiator. However, “it is a mistake to think of Bok mainly as a mediator,” Whitehead Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson writes in an e-mail. “As president, he actually encouraged controversy. His annual letters (and many of his speeches) boldly challenged many powerful constituencies of the university.”In fact, Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein published a 1971 article in The Atlantic Monthly that argued...
...challenge them again in the future in the NCAAs.”In doubles, co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson, ranked sixth in the nation, came close to pulling an upset against the country’s No. 1 pair of Catrina and Christian Thompson, as the duo led, 6-5, late in the match. The All-American twins came back to tie the match and eventually triumph by a 9-8 margin, winning the tiebreak, 7-5. Sophomore Stephanie Schnitter and senior Eva Wang at No. 2 and Chu and junior Preethi Mukundan...
...Thompson’s new children’s film, “Nanny McPhee,” falls far short of the magic of 1964’s “Mary Poppins.” With warts, a prosthetic nose, and one large bucktooth, the usually classy Thompson plays the title governess in this latest bit of family treacle. Directed by Kirk Jones (“Waking Ned Devine”), the movie begins like an episode of the old Fox TV show “Nanny 911,” this time starring the cast...
...What Thompson calls “the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings” resides across the river at the Boston Athenaeum. The book, “The Highwayman: Narrative of the Life of James Allen alias George Walton,” is a memoir whose author lives on inside as well as on the book’s covers. Walton was impressed by the courage of a man whom he once attacked, and when Walton was facing execution, he asked to have his memoir bound in his own skin and presented to the brave...