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Mezrich, who is the author of the books Reaper, Threshold and The X-Files: Skin, said the Harvard name was part of what helped him to land an agent and then a book contract...
While Halpern's was the only signature on the contract, an undergraduate was listed as a contact person...
Benjamin M. Stoll '04, a member of PSLM, said, "We offered to take the posters down for the weekend. We then offered to have someone else from PSLM or someone from Amnesty International sign the contract...
...pulled out of the auction for free-agent shortstop Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez is the extras demanded by agent Scott Boras, who counters that these things were hardly "demands" and that, anyway, he didn't make some of them. Whatever--the add-ons to a 12-year, $300 million contract reportedly include an escalator clause that would automatically bump A-Rod's salary over anyone else's; a luxury box at the stadium for the star's entourage; private jet service; a tent at spring training from which to sell A-Rod souvenirs; a private marketing staff and an office...
...each of us has thrown a ball, hit a ball, kicked a ball, and we know how much fun these things are. When Tiger, A-Rod, Venus and Serena complain that they are unsuitably recompensed, we have to ask, "Don't you get it? Part of your contract--part of your deal--is, well, you get to play...