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ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO RETIRE? It will be interesting to see what you say about this, because there's almost a willful misunderstanding among the press or among people about what that means. I can't imagine retiring from writing. What I can imagine doing is retiring from publishing...
These “doltish” souls beg to differ. Sam Sternin ’01, who was one of a handful of Jewish members of the Society of Arab Students (SAS) last year, argues that there is “no inconsistency in supporting the state of Israel...
DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, self-effacing, globally revered children's author; in Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that...
Few events captured the willful hubris of the late '90s like the summer 1999 launch of Talk magazine. The hype-driven, bicoastal venture of Hearst Magazines and Miramax Films began life with a celebrity editor, Tina Brown; with the requisite '90s whiff of "synergy" (articles becoming books becoming movies becoming...
Berry read the script and immediately called her manager to say she would do it. As she recalls, "He said, 'Well, there's a small problem. They don't want you.' Then the fight began." Berry met with director Marc Forster, and, she says, "I just wore him down. I...