Word: written
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Waldman began working for President Clinton during his 1990 presidential campaign. In 1995, he became Clinton's chief speechwriter. Waldman has written some of Clinton's most prominent speeches, including his past four State of the Union addresses...
...gentle and somehow calming, and not suspecting anything, you went back the next morning. After several sessions, you were offered the book written by their "master," Li Hongzhi. It was about self-control and Buddhist enlightenment, written in a chatty style that was not hard to understand, and it cost only $2. The group would read and discuss parts of it after the exercises, so you bought a copy. What you didn't know was that you were being watched--that you and millions like you were already caught in the net of China's biggest internal security operation since...
...began making it easy and cheap to buy and sell stocks. Barton Biggs, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, confirms and bemoans the trend in biting missives to clients about his plumber, who is so busy trading he won't come to fix a leaking pipe. I've written about the guy behind the deli counter leafing through Barron's for that day's stock trade. It's epidemic, and it's alarming...
Kaufman had written essays and law review articles--including some on Cardozo--in the past, but Cardozo was his first full-scale biography, and Kaufman said the genre posed new challenges...
Though this year's list was not as controversial, Hess said that the focus on classics makes it unique. "It's an interesting list because it could have been written 15 years ago, with the exception of Toni Morrison, who is the one modern day writer...