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Norman Mailer's latest work in progress, a biography of Pablo Picasso, has become embarrassing for his publisher, Random House, and his prominent editor, Jason Epstein. Picasso biographer John Richardson, who is also edited by Epstein, refused to allow excerpts from his 1991 book, A Life of Picasso: Volume I, 1881-1906, to be used in Mailer's book, which he denounced as a "scissors-and-paste job." Mailer now expects to sell his project -- sans the Richardson passages -- to another publisher. Richardson is staying at Random House but has switched editors...
PUBLISHER: RANDOM HOUSE; 445 PAGES...
...experts who have studied product tampering since it first exploded in 1982, when seven people in the Chicago area died after taking cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol. Waves of tampering complaints have since swept the nation. But for all the hysteria, true tampering -- deliberately altering a product to endanger random victims -- remains a rare crime. "More than 90% of reports of product tampering turn out to be false alarms," notes forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz of Newport Beach, California, who is a consultant...
PUBLISHER: RANDOM HOUSE; 576 PAGES...
...random housing making Harvard's a more diverse, welcoming place for students of all background. December...