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During the college’s early years, the Wedge family tries to hide the play from book-burning Cotton Mather types. Centuries later, the Wedges attempt to unearth the missing play, hoping to sell it and build a residential Wedge House. Antique bookseller Peter Fallon, the main character from Martin’s 1980 novel Back Bay, ties the narrative together as he helps the modern day Wedges on their search...
These stories unearth examples of corruption and misconduct, especially the exploitation of government offices and needless secrecy in businesses and organizations...
...also explain why iTunes doesn't support Windows Media Audio files--a Microsoft format that Bill Gates had hoped would become the music-industry standard. If iTunes becomes the player of choice for PC users, it would be a blow for Microsoft's grander audio ambitions--and may well unearth the hatchet that Jobs and Gates buried back...
...Coalition Provisional Authority, led by proconsul Paul Bremer, is opening a media center in Baghdad similar to the one set up in Qatar during major combat operations. "We have a story to tell," says a senior official. Part of the story last week was a fresh campaign to unearth Saddam Hussein; if it succeeds, officials hope, the resistance will dissipate...
...j700,000, a fraction of the estimated €20 million that the government would have had to pay at market prices. "Governments the world over give sweetheart deals," says Gary Osen, a U.S. lawyer whose suit in a New Jersey court on behalf of the Wertheim family helped to unearth some of these details. "What you don't see a lot of - and what makes this alarming - is that the government is writing checks." If the government isn't talking, Osen and his client Barbara Principe are. She's a 70-year-old mother of seven children who grew...