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...background is what one would expect from someone of his birth. Hailing from Greenwich, Conn., he graduated from the boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall. He rows on the lightweight crew team and is concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. With his decidedly East Coast preppy style, Rogers certainly looks like Joe Harvard. Still, his manner lacks any entitled air about his sterling lineage...
...DIED. JEROME HINES, 81, bass vocalist who sang at the Metropolitan Opera for 41 years--longer than any other performer--playing 45 characters in 39 operas, including the title role in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov; in New York City. Known for doggedly researching the psychological background of his characters, he gave 868 performances at the Met before retiring...
David McKeon knew in his heart--and in his wallet--that he was too young to stop working. At 56, like thousands of other Americans of his generation, he was given early retirement by his company, which had been taken over and downsized. Why not, he decided, use his background in finance, information systems and managing people to start his own company? McKeon read books on business trends and got in touch with former colleagues and professional associations. The result: Success Planning Associates, an executive business-and career-coaching firm based out of his home in Berlin, Mass...
...handful of comic essays about his pooch, which his wife Katrina distributed to several online dog groups. After getting enthusiastic e-mail responses to the stories, Fried decided that he might have enough humorous anecdotes about Genevieve to sustain a book. With time on his hands and a marketing background to help him get a book into stores, he started Eiffel Press in 1999. Fried hired a book packager to help design the publication, and in 2000, he self-published Memoirs of a Papillon: The Canine Guide to Living with Humans Without Going...
...with more familiar sounds such as WHOOOSH! and BONK! But some, like KIIIIN! (the sound of a superhero hurtling through the air), haven't been changed. To get readers up to speed, an editorial team (comprised mostly of American 20-something manga enthusiasts) assembles pages of interviews with cartoonists, background information on characters and story lines, and explanations of the comics' Japanese cultural aspects. The American comic reads in Japanese fashion?right to left?so the publishers have added operating instructions and signposts to guide people through the pages. Why not just reverse the pages to make the order familiar...