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MOLLY: My mom has been such a great supporter of my work. My grandfather [author] Howard Fast and my father had this dynamic where my grandfather never wanted my father to succeed. He had a very mixed feeling about it, and he would always sort of tear him down. My mother has never, ever wanted but for me to be 20 times more successful than she. She is so unconflicted about that. That has really helped. Considering where she's come from, my mom is like the biggest mensch. Her parents were cold...
Maine, the No. 1 team in the country entering the day, was on the ropes. Jimmy Howard, statistically the best goaltender in the country and the Black Bears’ ace in the hole, had been driven from between the pipes after arguably his worst showing of the season...
...remember feeling like I was somebody else. I dove into Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, then the Kerry campaign. Watching my generation start to pay attention, first to the war and then to the election, I felt like we could really accomplish something. I felt like I was witnessing a movement, one of those massive changes I’d be telling my grandkids about...
Besides stumping and writing, Kerry is hoping to curry favor within the party by donating some of the $14 million left over from his campaign fund. He offered a vote of confidence to former rival Howard Dean, giving the national party $1 million when Dean took over as chairman. He donated $250,000 to the recount effort of Christine Gregoire, who eventually won a very close Governor's race in Washington. Venturing into local politics, he will probably endorse Antonio Villaraigosa in a runoff election for mayor in L.A., choosing a loyal supporter over incumbent James Hahn. "He gets...
During a recent breakfast meeting between Howard Chao, the partner in charge of O'Melveny & Myers' Asia practice, and a Silicon Valley venture-capital tycoon shopping for a lawyer with expertise there, the conversation was less a sales pitch by Chao than a freewheeling exchange about corporate-finance trends and upcoming investment opportunities. The portfolio manager left the meeting enlightened about the Chinese business landscape, and Chao got a new client as well as a referral to a company in the VC's portfolio that might also need his counsel. Most people would call that rainmaking. Chao calls it "knowledge...