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The Irish writer, best known for his Artemis Fowl fairy stories, has the invocation of happiness of Adams' widow, Jane Belson, to continue the bestselling information fiction saga.

Called "And Another Thing…," the new novel will be published in October 2009. Colfer said he was a big use a fan upon of the original books, which started considered in the state of a BBC radio serial.

"For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world," he reported in a statement. "It is a benefaction from the Gods. So, thank you Thor and Odin."

The satirical books relate the story of a hapless Englishman called Arthur Dent who travels the universe after the Earth is demolished to make progression for a hyperspace bypass.

The tale centers on the search for the answer to "life, the universe and everything," which after a long bide one’s time turns out to be 42. Penguin Managing Director Helen Fraser said she hoped Colfer would attract new readers to the books.

Adams died from a heart attack in California in 2001 at the vale of years of 49. He had hoped to finish the series with a sixth novel.

"Five seems to be a erroneous kind of account; six is a better friendly of number," he one time said.

(Reporting by Peter Griffiths; editing by Steve Addison)

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West Coast rapper Nate Dogg was hospitalized nearly two weeks ago after suffering a stroke, his second in less than a year.

But contrary to Internet news stories that offered an upbeat prognosis, a family member tells E! News that as of Wednesday the 39-year-old hip-hopster was on life support in a Los Angeles-area hospital with a feeding pipe in his mouth.

"He has suffered another stroke from his bad eating habits and unhealthy lifestyle," says Donald Smith, Dogg's cousin and a fellow emcee who goes by the moniker Lil' Half Dead. "All we can do now is pray for him."

Dogg has since been taken off life support but as of today still requires a feeding tube, according to Smith.

The rapper, whose real celebrity is Nathaniel Hale, was afflicted on Sept. 5. Earlier this week, manager Rod McGrew told the hip-hop advice site SOHH "the prophasis at this time is favorable. We're positive, prayerful, hopeful and patient." Citing unnamed sources, TMZ offered a starker charge, saying that while Dogg did not undergo punishment any brain damage, he has exhibited petty movement on the earth the neck.

The MC, a cousin of Snoop Dogg who made his debut in succession Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic in the sight of signing with Death Row Records, was in the first place felled by a shock on Dec. 19, leaving him partially paralyzed.

Dogg had continued his recovery in physical therapy, but tranquil relied steady the use of a wheelchair.

"He was making excellent progress through his recovery from the first stroke," said McGrew. "This is every unfortunate setback. We gladly received all prayers in support of Nate's redemption moreover we would appreciate privacy."

The rapper's condition will undoubtedly force a Compton judge to postpone a Sept. 24 opportunity to be heard in which Dogg faces felony charges for threatening and stalking his estranged wife of one’s bosom

—Additional reporting by Ken Baker

(Originally published Sept. 17, 2008 at 7:41 a.m. PT.)

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With 57 billion dollars net worth Gates another time leads the list of 400 richest individuals in the world's wealthiest country.

He displaced Buffett who briefly held the position this year but who has seen his Berkshire Hathaway investment group's shares slip 15 percent from that time February and is since worth 50 billion.

According to Forbes, whose list was published a day after the fair Wednesday, the golden 400 have 1.3 billion dollars net worth or more. However, their combined net worth rose but 30 billion dollars, or two percent, to 1.57 trillion dollars.

Forbes uttered that rising oil and dizzy art prices fuelled the entry of 31 new members into the ultra-rich club and the return of eight previous members.

A notable arrival was Mark Zuckerberg, 24, founder of the social networking location Facebook. Forbes estimates his worth at 1.5 billion dollars.

Newcomers ranged from fertilizer tycoon Alexander Rovt to Patron tequila founder John Paul DeJoria and Norman Braman, the car dealer and art collector.

Meanwhile, turmoil on the stock and housing markets saw 33 others drop off the list, including the former chieftain of the troubled security against loss hercules AIG, Maurice Greenberg, and a creator head of the online vendue site eBay, Margaret Whitman.

Biggest gainers were led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who took eighth place with 20 billion dollars worth after a transaction put a new value forward his Bloomberg media and pecuniary data network.

The biggest loser was casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson, whose fortune fell 13 billion dollars over 12 months — the equivalent to 1.5 million dollars some hour — be it so he still has 15 billion dollars and occupies 15th place.

About brace thirds of the list are self-made billionaires and fair over 10 percent are women, led by television star Oprah Winfrey whose fortune rose 200 very great number dollars to 2.7 billion dollars.

Forbes cautioned that the selvage does not take into account the most recent setbacks on the stock market.

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Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the chief city city. Draw audibly and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways.

It’s a remarkable dichotomy echoed throughout the Republican establishment, as a gathering that’s held the White House for the past eight years tries to retain its catch hold of in what has shaped up as a change election.

“Reform becomes poisonous,” former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of the current president, said at a McCain town hall meeting this week in Orlando. “If you start to dream bigger dreams and you start challenging the basic assumptions, you can change how things work, and we’ve done it in Florida, and the Good Lord knows we need to do it in Washington, D.C., and John McCain is the suitable guy at the right period of childbirth to make that happen.”

McCain has long considered himself a political maverick, and there’s no doubt that the Arizona senator has bucked the system — especially later in his course.

Once so agree to the establishment that he had his own number in the Keating Five abuse of public trusts scandal, McCain has more freshly challenged the institutions of Congress with campaign finance legislation and other reform measures.

Just four years ago, McCain was enough of a bipartisan figure that Democrat John Kerry considered him as a running mate.

This life around, yet, McCain is projecting a dual image: the outside insider. A 25-year veteran of the House and Senate, a white individual like all the rest of the country’s presidents to date, McCain is trying to fend off a 47-year-old, first-term senator fishing . see also to become the first black to reach the Oval Office.

It’s prompted almost melodic speechmaking and statements.

Squeeze in, and he’s the new capital tour guide for his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

“I can’t wait to introduce her to Washington, D.C. I can’t wait,” he related to cheers Monday in Jacksonville.

Draw out, and he sounds equal he not ever set foot in the city himself.

“The word’s going out, my friends: The old-boy network, the pork-barrelers, the earmarkers, my friends, the word is, `Change is advent,’” McCain said. “There’s brace mavericks coming to Washington, and we’re going to shake it up.”

Squeeze in, and he’s got the Washington skill set needed to right the country’s Wall Street woes.

“I was the chairman on the Senate Committee steady Commerce, Science and Transportation for six years,” he told reporters aboard his “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus amongst Monday’s market meltdown. “That’s the committee that oversights our frugality — transportation, science, telecommunications, airlines — the whole of of the factors that drive our regulation.”

Draw out, and he distances himself from the administration of the Republican president who has endorsed him. No cursory reference of his record favoring deregulation.

“Too great number firms on Wall Street receive been able to count on casual oversight by regulatory agencies in Washington. And there are with equal reason multiplied of those regulators that the responsibility on the side of oversight is scattered, unfocused and ineffective,” he told a rally crowd Tuesday in Tampa, Fla.

There are even times when McCain does both — squeeze in and draw out — in the same consideration.

It sounds the note he hopes voters will attend without ceasing Election Day, that of the versed newcomer.

“I perceive how to fix it. I know how to fix the corruption,” he said of the nation’s economic problems during an appearance Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show. “I’ve been fighting it the whole time I’ve been in Congress.” Glen Johnson has reported in succession topical, dignity and national politics since 1985. He covers the Republican presidential campaign for The Associated Press.

As the financial scene shifts, B-schools are busy reaching out to nervous students whose job prospects are suddenly far from certain

by Alison Damast

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These are usually the days when business train students are colonizing into their rank routine and awaiting the arrival of recruiters on campus. But with the downfall of two of Wall Street’s investment houses and fears that other major companies are on the brink, it’s a nervous duration of one’s life at B-schools.

How depressing will it be? Most traffic schools contacted this week speak it’s in addition early to tell, but Alan Johnson, CEO of Johnson Associates, a compensation consultancy. predicts hiring will be down by as plenteous viewed like 50% this fall, with students entering what will be one of the most fiercely competitive job markets in late years.

"While most banks will not admit it, we expect to see few people hired in the fall and banks tarrying to apprehend to what degree the environment evolves," Johnson said on Sept. 16.

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers (LEH) and the rushed sale of Merrill Lynch (MER) over the weekend, school career services officers have been busy reassuring students, reaching out to those who had job offers lined up with the firms and organizing campus-wide events to discuss the overall impact of the events without ceasing job prospects.

One thing is certain: Career services officers at vocation schools are bracing for rough waters ahead, said Kip Harrell, food president of the MBA Career Services Council, the umbrella group of school career placement officers in a Sept. 15 interview.

Students who interned at Merrill Lynch over the summer and received a job offer are mixed the more fortunate ones—in this way far. Their jobs appear to be surviving Merrill’s sale to Bank of America (BAC). "We are standing by all of our offers," said a spokesperson at Merrill Lynch on Sept. 16.

The outlook at other firms is not so conspicuous. A spokesperson at Lehman Brothers declined to comment. A call to insurance giant American International Group (AIG), what one. faced failure until a government rescue plan was reached Tuesday night, was not returned.

Deans of business schools are too preparing for tough times ahead. The new dean of the University of San Diego’s School of Business Administration, David Pyke, is expecting recruiting by means of investment banks to take a nosedive this fall. "I think it’s going to have being bloody." But he said it will apparently not do harm to his school too much since not many students go to Wall Street; most cessation up in corporate finance positions.

The schools likely to be hardest suit are those known for their strong finance offerings, where large investment firms probable Lehman and Merrill have tended to renovate heavily. Mark Zupan, dean of University of Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business, uttered he believes that the top five business schools, what one. are clew feeders for rise above others financial firms, will be the most impacted by the turmoil. "It’s going to be a tough market for Wall Street-related jobs," Zupan said.

Indeed career services officers at those top-ranked schools said they are anxiously awaiting word from Lehman, Merrill, and AIG on whether or not they plan to consideration the job offers they extended to second-year students, as well as their plans for emptying campus recruiting.

"We don’t be sure the impact yet on recruiting conducive to second-year students," Julie Morton, associate dean for career services at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business said in an e-mail. "We do know that because of Friday afternoon the outlook was solid." Most of the Wall Street firms wages mainly from their internship classes, she added.

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The University of Washington named Scott Woodward muscular director on Wednesday. Woodward has handled the job from the time of Jan. 31, when the forced resignation of Todd Turner became official.

Turner resigned last December, with UW president saying he was no longer a good fit for the job. Woodward, who is also the school’s vice president of apparent affairs, has handled representation AD duties since then.

In the grow, he announced that he would not be a full-time candidate for the predication at the direction of Emmert, who preferred to keep him in his current job. However, Woodward has since related he would take the AD job if that’s which Emmert judgment was best.

UW has thought to have had serious discussions with at smallest two candidates, including Dan Radakovich of Georgia Tech.

The school hired Parker Executive Search of Atlanta, Ga., to remedy in the process, paying the firm $75,000.

Woodward’s most critical decisions in the early going will regard the floundering football program under fourth-year coach Tyrone Willingham, who is under some serious heat with one 11-28 record.

Turner had been the AD since the summer of 2004 and hired Willingham. Speculation has persisted that one of the factors most important to Turner’s declination was his staunch support of Willingham after last prepare.

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“Think Happy Thoughts” was the subject line of Bob Bjorklund’s morale-boosting e-mail to his staff in WaMu’s Capital Strategies department Friday.

“It’s going to be unsightly confused there today and over the next several weeks, but when in doubt, repeat after me; ‘$50 billion dollars!’ “

The WaMu executive was referring to the bank’s statement last week that it has more than $50 billion in available liquidity to pay depositors and have effect loans.

The e-mail, whose authenticity was confirmed by a WaMu spokeswoman, assured the portfolio director’s team that “WaMu is going to come out the other end of this craziness in great shape.” As for the hedge funds and short sellers betting against WaMu, “we’ll have the satisfaction of wiping out those shorts and they be possible to taste some of their own medicine.”

Wall Street apparently didn’t achieve that memo. The stock of WaMu, the biggest U.S. savings and loan, tumbled 27 percent Monday on concern it won’t subsist able to find new capital or a buyer to stay in business.

The shares dropped 73 cents to $2 for the reason that investors gauged whether the Seattle company can continue without fresh cash to cushion as a great deal of as $19 billion in bad mortgages over the next 2

The stock continued to fall in after-hours trading, dropping 20 cents, or 10 percent, to $1.80.

Lehman Brothers Holdings, beset by losses tied to place of abode loans, filed for bankruptcy buckler Monday after failing to find new funds or an acquirer.

“There’s a very good chance that they are the nearest one to fail,” Charles Lemonides, chief investment officer at Valueworks in New York, said of WaMu on Bloomberg TV.

The company has said it has enough capital and liquidity to stay in occupation, and new Chief Executive Alan Fishman has said he’ll be talented to turn the company around.

Sara Hasan, who covers Washington’s smaller community banks at McAdams Wright Ragen in Seattle, said the market to more extent is “painting everybody with the same brush.”

Bjorklund’s memo makes a valid projection, she said: that WaMu has the funds to keep its business running. What investors should exist sleeplessness is its capital levels, a different pool of standard of estimation eroded at the regulate the company records losses on loans.

WaMu’s 80 percent slide in place of traffic value to $3.4 billion since March leaves the company valued at about which JPMorgan Chase was willing to pay at the time to buy the struggling lender.

WaMu rebuffed the JPMorgan offer, instead choosing some investment by private-equity settled TPG.

JPMorgan isn’t in talks to buy WaMu, a someone briefed on the matter said Friday.

An acquisition by JPMorgan would exist “a strategic positive” for the New York unshaken, Morgan Stanley analysts led by Betsy Graseck said in a Sunday diplomatic communication.

Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis, who this weekend agreed to acquire Merrill Lynch, told CNBC on Monday that he isn’t interested in WaMu.

WaMu may be unnatural to sell all or portion of itself to enhance capital, say consultants including Bert Ely, president of Ely & Co. in Alexandria, Va. A buyer would also have to framework out an additional $1.38 billion to TPG, based attached the stipulations of the distribution the firm negotiated in April.

“My opinion is, yes, the company is for sale, admitting that and when they have power to find a willing buyer,” said Gary Townsend, CEO of Hill-Townsend Capital in Chevy Chase, Md. The buyer would subsist “one that’s willing to pay enough to reach the deal be in action.”

Big drop

WaMu tumbled in the past six months, dropping 36 percent last week alone, a record decline, at the same time that the bank lost $6.3 billion tied to home mortgages. The lender ousted practised hand CEO Kerry Killinger and disclosed that its chief regulator has told it to boost risk management and compliance.

Standard & Poor’s cut WaMu’s reputableness rating to junk Monday because of the deteriorating housing market.

S&P reduced its rating on WaMu to BB- from BBB-, leaving it three levels below investing. grade, and cut its rating on the subsidiary knoll to BBB- from BBB.

“Increasing market turmoil and the related impact from frugal its concentrated mortgage franchise in this troubled horse-cloth and credit period led to the downgrade,” S&P wrote.

The rating cut followed similar announcements last week from Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings.

Responding to S&P’s promulgation, WaMu said, “It’s weighty to note that S&P attributed its action to worsening market conditions, and not to any material change in the evaluation of Washington Mutual’s financial condition.”

A blend of some 70 unfrequent malt whiskies, The Last Drop sells for $2,000 a bottle. Is it worth it?

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Can a $2,000 bottle of Scotch whisky really justify the price?

That’s what I aimed to turn when I poured myself a wee dram of The Last Drop, a blend of malt and scintilla whiskies everything distilled and barreled prior to 1960.

At a time when the drinking public can’t seem to get enough of premium single-malt whiskies and long-aged, blended whiskies, it doesn’t surprise me to find a product like this hitting the market. But my skepticism antenna elevates from my head and palate when I get the call about such a product.

The Last Drop Distillers is a London-based company founded by spirits efforts veteran Tom Jago—whose exploits bear been allied with Johnnie Walker Blue, Bailey’s Irish Cream, The Classic Malts and Chivas Regal and Royal Lochnagar—and his partners James Espey and Peter Fleck.

The partners, who have worked on other whiskies and products together in their career book of travels, scoured communities around Scotland looking because old storage warehouses where some gems efficiency subsist fix. Their search took them to "The Old Dunnage Warehouse at Auchentoshan," a Lowland town Northwest of Glasgow onward the outskirts of Clydebank in Dumbartonshire.

The whisky that the partners are offering up at such lofty prices, and limited to 1,347 bottles, was distilled and blended in 1960. After 12 years in American oak, it was transferred in 1972 to sherry casks, whither it remained in opposition to 36 years. That’s long enough that two-thirds of the liquid in the casks evaporated—the “angels’ share.”

According to the company, the whiskey was made from some 70 malt whiskies from several distilleries no longer operating, as well as a dozen grain whiskies.

Distilleries today are making extensive use of sherry casks, which typically imparts taste notes of raisins, dried apricots, prunes, while well as a darker color. Glenmorangie Sherry Wood Finish 12-year ($60), that is matured in American oak for 10 years and elegant in sherry wood for two years, is one model. The Macallan 12-year Sherry Oak ($66) is another. Both engender middling reviews from Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2008.

Finishing whisky in sherry thicket, when done well, puts a hurt of production, honey, and middle that might otherwise only approach from some extra decade of aging in American oak.

Leaving the whisky in sherry wood for as long as The Last Drop was aged almost turns it into a product common wants to find a word besides "whisky" to describe.

Bottled at cask boldness (104-proof), I’ve infrequently seen a whisky so brown. As I tasted it, I was immediately transported to the Glenmorangie storage barn in Scotland, where last May master distiller Bill Lumsden drew out a sample from a "lost" barrel that had spent seven years in a sherry hooped instead of the usual two. That liquid was in the same manner close to the taste of maple-walnut ice cream that it could have been cordial.

The Last Drop not surprisingly shows lots of the oak in its flavor and tongue suffer. Besides the positive dark dried-fruit tastes of figs, dates, and raisins, I procreate some chocolate without ceasing my taste for example well and a suggestion of molasses. The elaboration is understandably jammy. But the toasted oak is underneath every flavor short letter. And I can still detect a speak softly of the peat coming from the Islay malts that are part of the blend. This is a big, round, lip-smacking whisky. But not cloying. The balancing to avoid being as rich as ice cream was in good health achieved in the barrel.

I started to wonder as I sipped if two-thirds of the barrels really evaporated, or if the storage barn workers made liberal use of the wine-thief over the years. I know I would have.

Is it worth the cost tag? This is one of those instances at what place I yield to the buyer’s wallet and latest brokerage statement. Two-thousand dollars for a bottle none of his or her friends is likely to have in the cabinet is worth something to some people. The Last Drop (I don’t much like the name) is about exclusivity. If two grand is to the buyer what $200 might be to a more average-incomed critic, then it may not be too a great deal of to pay. Whatever the buyer’s income, though, it helps that this is a very grand and distinctive whisky.

Although many of the bottles are spoken for, inquiries should go to the company’s London offices, reachable at info@lastdropdistillers.com. And if even you can’t (or dress in’t) want to spend $2,000 on a bottle of whisky, perhaps you know a well-heeled whisky fan who does. If you rehearse them from one place to another The Last Drop, maybe they’ll let you enjoy a glass or two.

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You could build a cathedral faster. You could put a newborn from any side college. You could fix the viaduct, replace the 520 bridge and finish up the Dreamliner.

Maybe the University of Washington will name a permanent muscular director sometime this century. Maybe one of president Mark Emmert’s great-great-great grandchildren will find time before the prophecy of st. john. After 281 days of ponderous, indecisive and secretive AD shopping, there’s no practice anticipating a hiring anymore.

It will come, eventually. And it resolution fail to excite you, definitely. The only lingering stratagem is whether Emmert be inclined memorize it done before the one-year anniversary of Todd Turner’s bizarre banishment.

Seemingly fully of nowhere, Turner resigned Dec. 10, about 30 seconds before the guillotine would’ve fallen. The explanation was philosophical differences, which is public official-ese for, “We think of each other as dolts, so the guy with more power wins.” It’s yet confusing to interpret exactly what Turner did to assure his sudden ousting. The worst thing he did was defend a football coach that Emmert wound up keeping around anyway.

After such an inauspicious dismissal, no wonder the Huskies obtain botched this search. Emmert forgot rule No. 1 of an abrupt public axing: Make sure you receive a replacement in mind.

That’s the laughable part of this fiasco. Nine months ago, Emmert poked gone out his chest, basically declared Turner wasn’t good enough to do anything more than think an athletic department NCAA compliant and vowed to find a replacement that matched his vision.

Tick, tock, Prez. Tick, tock.

For independent months, the vocable has been that it will happen soon. Once the snails deliver the preferred AD solicitant his contract, in that place will be any advertisement. Any day now. Just be patient.

In the meantime, the football team, the brawny province’s primo program, has lost three straight games to open a win-or-walk season for coach Tyrone Willingham. The fan base is fractured and fuming. If nothing changes, the new AD will have to fire a coach prior to decorating his act of worship.

At this point, the single smart move would be to blaze abroad interim AD Scott Woodward as the permanent honcho. He’s done admirable work balancing two jobs for the past nine months. He’s the acting AD and the vice president of external affairs, and throughout this elongated search, he’s floated between being a placeholder and a legitimate solicitant.

His current day job is so of influence that a switch to full-time athletic boss would be considered a step from a high to a low position. But since his primary enterprise is to get $150 million in public money to renovate Husky Stadium, he might help himself by accepting this new job and fixing the football program.

Waiting nine months just to become Woodward the permanent AD would lead to plenty of head-scratching, if not ridicule. But he’s the with most propriety fit now. He’s the only fit.