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...Godless has long passages on some very old topics, including an entire early chapter on some ads from the 1988 presidential campaign and then a very long section on AIDS debates from the '80s. I've met a lot of your fans, and many are in their 20s. I'm 35, and when I got to the sentence in Chapter 7 that began "A 1985 issue of People magazine?," I got pretty bored. Won't this seem like ancient history to readers...
...bureau chief.In 1978, following a year at Yale Law School, where she earned a master of studies in law degree on a Ford Foundation fellowship, Greenhouse was assigned to the Times’ Washington Bureau and became its Supreme Court correspondent. With the exception two years in the mid-80s during which she wrote on Congress, Greenhouse has covered the Supreme Court ever since. In 1998, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Court.“She paved the way for other female journalists,” says Washington Post publisher and chief executive officer Boisfeuillet...
...says, “would be an understatement.”Harvard’s success starts and ends with Brand. An immigrant to the U.S. from Israel at the age of 13, Brand continued fencing in his adopted country, competing internationally throughout the 1970s and ’80s. The Crimson, an energetic outfit that Brand tailored together from the nation’s best recruits, has taken to his unorthodox approach to coaching. Brand is a man who frowns on formality.He grew up on a kibbutz, where neighbors casually address each other by their given names. His fencers...
...many other students and tutors in Quincy were willing to offer their support when he found derogatory posters on his door. “It became a House controversy,” he says.The gay rights movement grew exponentially in size and strength throughout the early ’80s.“In my freshman year, at the beginning, I knew of two other [gay] people in our class,” says Schatz, adding that the GSA had a mailing list of around 75 when he started college in 1978. By 1981, it had grown...
Food-marketing expert Balzer says yogurt's appeal is its convenience. "Yogurt has this wonderful halo of health, but the ease is what drives the category. In the mid-'80s, pizza was the food of the day. Today it's yogurt," he says. "Clearly it's a structural change in the way we're eating." Yoplait's goal, says Waldron, is to get yogurt into more meals and snacks during the day, on more days of the week...