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...also given sufficient moola to hire top-tier talent, who were put on handsome retainers. Tom Wolfe was rumored to be paid $12 a word; Michael Lewis $50K an article. David Margolick was poached from Vanity Fair, where the contributing editor's retainer was well into six figures. Less renowned staff writers were said to make over $150,000 a year. Deputy editor Amy Stevens was making north of $400,000, several colleagues said. Even some of the bloggers were hitting the $120,000 mark...
...Put aside that titillating vampire lit. Author Beverly Lewis has come up with a new magic formula for producing best-selling romance novels: humility, plainness and no sex. Lewis' G-rated books, set among the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have sold more than 12 million copies, as bodice rippers make room for "bonnet books," chaste romances that chronicle the lives and loves of America's Amish...
Eleganza, a fashion show fundraiser put on by Black C.A.S.T, celebrated its 15th anniversary in Lavietes Pavilion on Saturday night with an estimated 1,500 people in attendance but without the highly anticipated musical guest: Fabolous...
...weeks ago Harvard was swept by Yale in a doubleheader that seemed to put the division title out of reach, and the team gave up seven runs with two outs in the bottom of the sixth against Brown to let the Bears blow open what had been a close game...
...Ancient Eight slate wore on, the Crimson experienced the highest of highs—a 6-5 win over Cornell on April 4 to hand the Big Red its first Ivy loss, a dominant sweep of Brown last Sunday in which the offense put up 23 runs, taking two from the Big Green in Hanover to gain the division lead—and the lowest of lows...