Besides writing his book, he's done some freelance work in reality TV since then.

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Besides writing for Forbes, Gene Marks writes weekly for The New York Times and Inc.com.

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How many things, besides writing, could you do with it?

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Besides writing the weekday advertising report as well as other news articles and features, he also writes a weekly e-mail newsletter In Advertising for the New York Times on the Web.

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In the first letter, from Jan. 15, 1983, Chapman says his reason for writing, besides wanting to be Spiro's friend, is to ask for help in locating his copy of "The Catcher in The Rye, " which he was reading at the time of his arrest.

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Besides the intrinsic value of cursive writing, some are worried that phasing it out may make texts written in cursive go the way of hieroglyphics, as McGrann pointed out.

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Her writing makes you feel like you are right besides the person who has gone from one extreme to the other, in terms of careers.

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