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...with that, Leven shifted his focus and aimed it squarely at the entertainment world. Hollywood came calling, and at their request, he transformed his novels into screenplays. Creator became 1985’s The Big Picture, starring Peter O’Toole and Mariel Hemingway, while 2002 saw the release of the Satan adaptation, Crazy as Hell, featuring Eriq LaSalle and Michael Beach. Mr. Leven has moved from success to success as a veteran in the industry, his psychological insight lending a depth to his characterizations even as his talent manages to ground otherwise insubstantial films and allow them...
Each department that has been granted permission to conduct a search develops a short list of five or six candidates. Departments then send “blind letters” to 15 or 20 scholars outside Harvard who work in the field of the tenure candidates to request feedback on their qualifications. The letters also ask the outside reviewers to alert the department to any female or minority candidates whom they might have overlooked, Tompkins said...
...expect to be reading about [the police escort] on Page Six—that’s my only request,” Brokaw said, alluding to the popular gossip section in the New York Post...
...cargo worker, Tami Silicio, was promptly fired. Then Russ Kick of Tucson, Ariz., put 361 Dover photos (all from the past year, including images of the coffins of the shuttle Columbia crew) on his site, www.thememoryhole.org--having sprung them from the Air Force through a Freedom of Information Act request. But that was "apparently just a mistake," says a senior Pentagon official. "We don't want the remains of our service members, who have made the ultimate sacrifice, to be the subject of any kind of attention that is unwarranted or undignified," says John Molino, a Deputy Under Secretary...
...told him, 'In our first meeting three years ago I accepted your request not to physically harm Arafat ... [That] commitment does not stand anymore.'" ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, recounting what he told President Bush at their recent meeting in Washington regarding an earlier pledge not to harm Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...