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...Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, concerned about the economic health of these struggling clubs, split each league into two six-team divisions; that way, more teams could contend until later in the season, boosting attendance and local TV ratings. The winner of each division would then have to play a best-of-five series to take the league title. Kuhn could also sell these extra games to national TV broadcasters, filling baseball's coffers...
Like last year's winner, Doris Lessing, Le Clézio has strong ties to Africa - he was born in Nice in 1940, but his family history on both sides leads back to Mauritius, an island about 500 miles east of Madagascar that has been best known in the West, at least until now, as the home of the famously extinct dodo. The son of a doctor, Le Clézio grew up in France and Nigeria speaking French and English. He began writing at the age of 8 - one of his childhood efforts, composed on a long voyage...
...story in now, you have a fair shot at winning one of the $1,000 prizes to awarded next on Nov. 1, and at the end of the year competing for the $250,000 grand prize for best story of 2008. That's less than the Nobel Prize winner for Literature - for which this year's laureate, French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, will pick up a little under $1,500,000 - but considerably more than the Pulitzer purse of $10,000. Says Thompson, "We are confident the FieldReport prize for experiential writing is the biggest single...
...Taliban had evacuated. “It was a double cross,” Filkins said nonchalantly, “we nearly didn’t make it out alive.” Then he moved on to tell another harrowing story. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the George Polk award, Filkins, who joined The Times in 2001 after reporting in Afghanistan for The Los Angeles Times, spoke at Harvard Book Store last night to an overflowing room. His talk was part of a promotional tour for his new book “The Forever...
...group within PricewaterhouseCoopers dedicated to strategy and operational consulting for motion-picture companies. He left in 1999 to join EHS Partners, a start-up consulting firm. A 2001 story in the Daily Telegraph of London, under the headline "Bust, but big bucks for the big boys," called Rajaram a "winner" in a deal for NanoUniverse, a Los Angeles- and London-based venture fund taken public on the London Stock Exchange, the Los Angeles Times reported. For a 12,500-pound investment, Rajaram, one of the company's founders, received 875,000 pounds - or about $1.2 million in 2001 dollars - after...