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...took in more than $100,000 in gifts to family trust funds and $600,000 in "work" for which precious little work was done. He was busy at the time, however, resisting pressure from prosecutors to divulge any Whitewater secrets of the Clintons. Now Burton's investigators have the calendar entries, phone records and notes that make up a blueprint for the extraordinary job search that took place as Hubbell remained silent. But is it enough...
This is the world that our protagonist, Lloyd, inhabits. "You don't do this deal because it makes sense," says Lloyd's boss, Doug; "you do it because it can be done." This being "A Novel of Business," each chapter follows a month in Lloyd's calendar, with an executive summary for bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate...
Patriot's Day is an unquestionably meritable, full-fledged holiday. Holiday merit can be an issue in Boston, where Evacuation Day is also on the calendar. Sure, Evacuation Day marks when the English left Boston for good, but something tells me that a dutiful Irish student blessed those Tories when he discovered they had left on March 17, just in time for a shamrock-laden celebration of another British Isle...
...those of us who don't yet have too many wedding anniversaries or funerals to commemorate the demarcations of our own personal histories, holidays offer a rare opportunity for adding a dramatic subtext to the calendar. At Halloween, for example, we sneak about, looking up at the stars, comparing preteen trick or treating expeditions with our current pranks...
...Would you be opposed to a UC Swimsuit calendar...