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Bernard Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman who was charged on Thursday with massive fraud, was long considered to be quirky. Employees at the offices of his eponymously named brokerage firm in midtown Manhattan's Lipstick Building had to follow strict rules for what they kept on their desk. Family photos were allowed but only if they were displayed in a simple black frame...
...Reid names a squad of 36 players and calls them to a meeting at the National Football Center, a grand name for a spartan two-story building set amid rice fields in the Bangkok boondocks. "It feels like a rehab clinic," grumbles one of Reid's staff. On the desk in front of him is the squad roster, a pristine copy of a book called English-Thai: The Fun Way to Learn the Language and a three-page cheat sheet of footballing phrases in Thai. Reid studies it. "Poo rack sah bra too," he says hesitantly. Phu rak-saa bpra...
...finally returned to Harvard after a recent sabbatical. Back as a visiting lecturer, Kincaid dishes on plant collecting, the future of British journalists, and how to write—and live—well.1. FM: What’s your writing process? Do you sit down at your desk, and know exactly where your story will take you?JK: I sit down at my desk and I know it will be difficult in this way and difficult in that way. Every book has a different process. You think this person is going to get up and cross the room. That?...
...while working as a mechanical engineer in Philadelphia, Richard James saw a torsion spring fall off his desk and tumble end over end across the floor. "I think I can make a toy out of this," he later said. Two years afterward, all 400 of the toy's first run sold in 90 minutes--launching the Slinky craze...
...trauma of relinquishing a part of oneself. But it's not a need we outgrow. Over the course of his life and travels, Freud acquired more than 2,000 statues, vases and terra-cottas, plus some phalluses, of which his favorites stood in a row on his desk. "I must always have an object to love," he confessed to Carl Jung...