William Morrow

New coffee-table book roundup proves ripe for flipping

Everyone loves a good, gossipy secret, and now you can have a whole mess of them by your couch. "PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God" (William Morrow) by Frank Warren is another in a series of compilations of...

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More freaky findings and a global warming brouhaha

By JAMES PRESSLEY • Bloomberg News • November 15, 2009 Chicago hookers work overtime around the Fourth of July holiday, suicide bombers should buy life insurance, and capuchin monkeys have learned to use money to acquire Jell-O...

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Best-sellers week of Nov. 8-14, 2009

1. "Ford County: Stories" by John Grisham (Doubleday) 2. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 3. "Kindred in Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam Adult) 4. "The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time)" by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson...

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Weekend events celebrate legacy of ‘Our Nig’ writer

MILFORD – What does a beautiful Hollywood actress have in common with Harriet Wilson, a 19th century African-American novelist? Quite a lot, actually. Victoria Rowell, who has been in several movies and received three daytime...

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Clearwire: 'Google Believes in Us' (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Larry Dignan November 11, 2009 | about: ) has a larger war chest, but still lacks a significant subscriber base for its WiMax, or 4G, wireless services. Those were some of the takeaways as Clearwire CEO William Morrow put...

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Review: 'SuperFreakonomics' as fun as predecessor

Published: Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 1:42 p.m. MST "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance," by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow, 320 pages,...

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Elizabeth Kolbert: Is there a quick fix for the climate?

In the eighteen-sixties, the quickest, or at least the most popular, way to get around New York was in a horse-drawn streetcar. The horsecars, which operated on iron rails, offered a smoother ride than the horse-drawn omnibuses...

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Freakonomics boys study hookers' demand curves

All of these curiosities crop up in Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's "SuperFreakonomics," an intermittently amusing sequel to their bestseller, "Freakonomics." So I won't wade into the rising sea level of this debate,...

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NYT: For thrillers, Glenn Beck is new Oprah

For thrillers, Beck is becoming new Oprah Authors say appearances on conservative’s programs attract readers July 29: Fox News host Glenn Beck says President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" and accuses him of...

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BLOTTER: Salon.com Editor Comes to ABC

Mark Schone Joins Brian Ross and the ABC News Investigative Unit The executive news editor of Salon.com, Mark Schone, will join ABC News next month as managing editor of the ABCNews.com Blotter, the award winning website which...

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