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Rumors have spread this past week that Chelsea's decision was based upon the relative lack of media attention which she received at each school. Though yesterday's coverage of the affair in the San Francisco Chronicle clearly does not provide any evidence that media attention is less invasive on the other coast--they published an editorial listing the "Top ten reasons Chelsea Clinton chose Stanford," which included "#3. On advice of 'Uncle' Webster Hubbell, refused to discuss anything with Princeton, Yale and Harvard interviewers but forgot about Stanford" and "#4. Sick of those wimpy Gore kids hanging around...
Radcliffe is traveling to Penn State to take part in Nationals, a four-team, two-day affair that will crown rugby's national champion. The Black & White will face the defending champs, Princeton, in the semifinals tomorrow at noon. The contest will be a rematch of last year's semifinal game which the Tigers won in a closely-contested battle...
Katharine Hepburn turns 90 next month, and there will be the usual round of parties and tell-all books to celebrate the event. One of them, An Affair to Remember by Christopher Andersen, tells the story of how J. Edgar Hoover wanted to blow open the secret affair between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy because of Hepburn's opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Why didn't he? He was talked out of it by a young committee member: Richard Nixon...
...Just Another Brand of Therapy?" Most attention went to two of the panelists: Frank McCourt, whose best-selling memoir, Angela's Ashes, had just the day before won a Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Kathryn Harrison, whose memoir The Kiss, also a best seller, tells of an incestuous affair between her and her father that began when she was 20. A year ago, hardly anyone in the audience had ever heard of McCourt and Harrison. Now both authors are superstars in U.S. publishing's hottest current enterprise...
Different media have different thresholds for scandal. Controversy in the movies might mean making a film that glorifies one of the nation's most repugnant pornographers. Controversy in literature might mean writing a memoir about the affair you had with your father when you were in your 20s. In television, which functions not just as a business and debased art form but also as an increasingly fractured nation's de facto mirror of itself, the threshold is much lower. Controversy could mean starring in a sitcom as a gently scatterbrained former bookstore owner who, after years of adult floundering, reluctantly...