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...book published outside the mainstream houses - and outside London. So the man behind Canongate, Jamie Byng, got almost as many accolades as Martel himself. In 1994 Byng, then 26, paid less than $150,000 for the 26-year-old imprint, which had fallen on hard times. Byng's well-to-do family helped him come up with the cash - including step-father Christopher Bland, chairman of British Telecom. Byng, who began his career in 1992 as an unpaid intern at Canongate, was making $12,000 a year doing publicity for the company when he became managing director. The predictable hand...
...Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does a favor for a New York-based Russian mafioso, who pays him back by sending him to the East European city of Prava--read Prague--to run a pyramid scheme aimed at slumming young expats, the "pretty castoffs of well-to-do America, cruising along on their five-year plan of alcoholic self-discovery." They're easy marks, and easy targets for satire too. In less skillful hands, The Russian Debutante's Handbook could have turned into a fish-in-barrel exercise. But Shteyngart takes care to make his alter...
...policies, many clubs only elect men from private schools. This obviously limits from the start the variety of personalities represented in each club. Within this restricted atmosphere Pi Eta is an exception. Our group is made up of almost every type of personality at Harvard—athletic, intellectual, well-to-do and scholarship holders, private school and public school...
...under fire for years of covering up parish priests' sexual misconduct, has vowed not to raid collection plates, bingo nights or the church's ambitious $300 million capital fund-raising effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping the list: the Archbishop's elegant residence. But press reports suggest the Boston church has been steadily selling off chunks of its stocks...
...well-to-do Pakistani immigrant couple, Saeed grew up and went to school mostly in London. He excelled in his final exams (the only subject he found taxing was religion) and landed a place at the London School of Economics, where he studied statistics. But the middle-class trajectory of Saeed's life went off course after he volunteered for a Muslim charity in Bosnia and fell too ill to complete the trip. Within a year, Saeed dropped out of school and, after training at a camp in Afghanistan, joined the militant group Harkat ul-Ansar...