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...world,” said BMF officer Bryan C. Barnhill ’08. Each senior was celebrated in a video and then serenaded by an underclassman before receiving an award. “It’s just made my year,” said honoree Tanya A. Thompson ’06, as she thanked the BMF for the award in her video. The personal serenades were a new addition to this year’s program. They “were a very personal touch that I appreciated,” said award-winner Laws. After...
Patterson grew up in a small town in upstate New York. He always wanted to be a writer, but he didn't find it necessary to starve along the way: he had a highly successful career in advertising, including a six-year run as chairman of J. Walter Thompson in North America. But he never gave up on his dream. In 1977 his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, won an Edgar Award, the Oscar of the mystery world, although it wasn't a big commercial success. His evolution into James Patterson, The Man Who Only Writes Best Sellers...
...novel in his Alex Cross series, Patterson knew he'd written a best seller--so he took control of the way it was designed and marketed. When his publisher told him it wasn't interested in running a TV campaign, he called in a few favors at J. Walter Thompson and shot the ad with his own money. He wasn't jazzed about Spider's cover, so he redesigned it. "They'd done a cover that had a kid's sneaker on it, with a little blood on it, and I went, I don't know, it didn...
...leaders’ reaction to controversy. On the surface, Summers is depicted as brash and opinionated while Bok is lauded as a talented negotiator. However, “it is a mistake to think of Bok mainly as a mediator,” Whitehead Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson writes in an e-mail. “As president, he actually encouraged controversy. His annual letters (and many of his speeches) boldly challenged many powerful constituencies of the university.”In fact, Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein published a 1971 article in The Atlantic Monthly that argued...
...challenge them again in the future in the NCAAs.”In doubles, co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson, ranked sixth in the nation, came close to pulling an upset against the country’s No. 1 pair of Catrina and Christian Thompson, as the duo led, 6-5, late in the match. The All-American twins came back to tie the match and eventually triumph by a 9-8 margin, winning the tiebreak, 7-5. Sophomore Stephanie Schnitter and senior Eva Wang at No. 2 and Chu and junior Preethi Mukundan...