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...colleagues talk frankly with their classes about her illness, emphasizing that even though Mrs. Dillon now has a disability, she is the same person inside that she has always been. On a recent Monday, teacher Shelly Bancroft read David Adler's Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man to her fourth-graders, then led a group discussion. Katha Edwards' class, which had read E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan, about a bird without a voice, talked about Dillon's muteness. Said a student: "Mrs. Dillon is brave. She has a disease, but she works and works and never gives...
...small but insignificant world of media chitchat was fluttered last week by Renata Adler's new memoir that takes a brilliant flamethrower to the New Yorker magazine. Adler is a scrupulous, usefully unsettling critic, not to be yoked with casual hit men. She eviscerates so elegantly that her corpses remain standing. But her book and its overheated reception invoke the whole delightful genre of vengeful, venomous, and ultimately purposeless, literary assaults...
Buckley prized intellectual combat, but also the careful ventilation of ideas. Last week he cited with pride the fact that the philosopher Mortimer Adler used Firing Line to explicate his elaborate proofs for the existence of God. Somehow, it's hard to imagine Adler on the Jerry Springer Show...
...supermarket behemoth before it was sold to Kroger earlier this year, knows fixing Rite Aid will be an uphill battle, so he's bringing three top lieutenants to help him. "Bob really cares about the customer, and that wasn't always an attitude that pervaded Rite Aid," says Meredith Adler, analyst at Lehman Bros. "He's a talented manager and a real straight shooter...
...frail newcomer. As she likes to remind interviewers, she has racked up many television and film credits over the past decade, doing the obligatory bbc costume dramas and a handful of little-seen films. She came to Allen's attention for her raw, uninhibited portrayal of Iris in Carine Adler's 1997 Under the Skin, about a girl who goes into a promiscuous spiral after her mother dies. Next spring she will also be seen as a heroin addict in Jesus' Son, with Billy Crudup...