He wrote satirical left-wing ballads for the Establishment Club, mixed with Ken Tynan and Lindsay Anderson on the edge of London's shocking 1960s theatre scene, set his poems to jazz, uncovered pseuds and bizarre news stories for Private Eye.
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Unfortunately for the divorced Mr Blunkett, the job also fitted neatly with stories about his private life that have refused to die since he first resigned.
Finally, the SEC is starting to look at the shrouded world of private equity, according to stories over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
The two biggest private-to-public success stories of recent years have been told by buyout specialists.
The private sector world is littered with stories of failure (think Michael Bloomberg being fired by Salomon Brothers ahead of creating his eponymous information company) that authored grand, life enhancing success, but thanks to the comforts of government work that includes lifetime job security, a rising number of Americans will never know the work stresses and strains that often drive exciting commercial advances.
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Generations live blocks apart in the neighborhood, where friendships seem to stretch back to childhood and conversations invariably include stories full of memories and private humor.
In fact, the majority of cases we have seen so far, if not all, involved obtaining information to write and publish stories about people's private lives with no good, justifiable reason.
Three "Dreamers" caught Rausch's attention when they shared their life stories with him last year in a private meeting.
He describes his father as a painter and sculptor, and his mother as a schoolteacher who wrote mystery stories about a nun who was a private eye.
While we waited, the stories began to circulate about more and more people, just private citizens, being allowed to travel abroad to visit their relatives and friends.
Telling family stories, the Millers laughed about old snapshots showing the future private first class as a boy -- standing at parade rest while his father spoke to him.
There have been several stories in recent days about how Dell might be considering taking itself private.
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Based in Atlanta, Gupta also contributes health stories to CNN.com, co-hosts "Accent Health" for Turner Private Networks, provides medical segments for the syndicated version of "ER" on TNT and writes a column for Time magazine.
There is a fundamental difference between using a private investigator at any given time to turn around a story on tittle-tattle, or to fish for stories and monitor people's lives, and to make a careful, considered decision to carry out a breach of the law in order to expose wrongdoing.
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