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Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...Donald Carswell ’50 died in March 2005 after a distinguished career at NBC. This op-ed first ran on June...
...Some novelists and playwrights moonlighted in the movies. As a writer whose crime novels inspired a couple dozen movies (seven of them French), Donald Westlake, 76, could have retired with honors in the 60s, after Godard turned The Jugger into Made in USA and The Hunter became John Boorman's Point Blank. In the 70s he owned the comedy-caper genre, for what that's worth, with The Hot Rock, Bank Shot and Hot Stuff. He wrote scripts based on his own novels and those of other crime writers, incl. Jim Thompson's The Grifters (Oscar nomination) and Patricia Highsmith...
...crime wave of some 48 years came to an end Dec. 31 with the passing of Donald E. Westlake, 75, who (under his own name and as Richard Stark) wrote some of the best-loved and most influential crime novels of the 20th century...
...President Dick Cheney and his nefarious aide, David Addington, had a hand in the process. The memos were approved by Bush's legal counsel, Alberto Gonzales. A memo listing specific interrogation techniques that could be used to torture prisoners like Mohammed al-Khatani was passed to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He signed it on Dec. 2, 2002, although he seemed a bit disappointed by the lack of rigor when it came to stress positions: "I stand for 8-10 hours a day," he noted. "Why is standing limited to four hours...