Colbert gets a book deal

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/22/2006 3:21:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU writes:

Colbert's as-yet-unwritten
book, to be published in September 2007,  netted the newsman a solid
seven figures, Variety reported  today.


Seven figures? More than a million dollars? He could sponsor an ADS  scholar,
right?
...
Barry Popik
(penniless scholar, waiting over one year for a response from the Chicago
Historical Society on my stolen work on "Windy City")

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