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...publishers really thought they'd lose money on it. I also hadn't prepared for an older audience, but people with gray hair were reading it. That was unsettling because of all the cursing in the book. I was like, "Oh no, Uncle Fred is going to know I swear!" But I can't complain. I did warn Zeitoun, though. I said, "You have to know what you're getting into. This book might be huge, or it might go nowhere at all. You just never know...
...Even if corporations can be enlisted in the plan, there may not be enough time to save any classes for this fall. But the proposal has got some teachers thinking. Fred Chavaria, chair of the college's Administration of Justice and Fire Science department, expects four of his classes to be cancelled this fall. He is considering approaching local firemen and police officers' associations - hardly flush with cash - to sponsor endangered classes like Concepts of Law and Terrorism & Counterterrorism. "We're in a crisis," he says, while adding, "I'm not going to take anything from a gun manufacturer." (Read...
...Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, which draws in 7,000 players for a grand prize of $8.5 million at its main event, but the Macau tournament's organizers have high hopes for the game's potential in Asia. "The gold standard is the World Series of Poker," says Fred Leung, marketing manager for poker company PokerStars Macau. "In my mind, there's no better place that could beat the World Series of Poker than Macau." (Read a Q&A with the 2008 WSOP winner...
...quit her current job. Left, right and center, pundits opined on the lightness of Palin's résumé and her vanished chance to beef it up. How could she seek a promotion when she didn't finish the job she had? Even a fan like columnist Fred Barnes, writing in the pro-Palin Weekly Standard, declared glumly, "Forget about Sarah Palin as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and probably ever...
Reaper, Grim • continuing insatiability of for celebrity blood claims Karl Malden, • and Harve Presnell, • and Fred Travelena, • and Billy Mays, • and Gale Storm, • and Sky Saxon, whose band The Seeds, had the great song "Pushin' Too Hard...