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...shed any more light on this riddle. He's not exactly a reliable witness. Last week his brother Jerry told the New York Times that a new trial is needed so that James Earl can "clear his name." That's not what Jerry told investigative reporter George McMillan, author of The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray, 21 years ago. According to McMillan, Jerry told him that on the morning of the murder, his brother telephoned him and said he was going to get "the big nigger" that very same day. Like his brother, Jerry later...
Christopher Ogden is the author of Life of the Party: the Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
Other things required no calibration, since the book was Mia Farrow's memoir, What Falls Away (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 370 pages; $25). An author as hot as Farrow doesn't go on a book tour. Barbara, Oprah and Larry date her up. She was, after all, involved in a show-biz shocker. Four and a half years ago, she discovered that Woody Allen, her lover of 12 years and the father of one of her 14 children (four natural, 10 adopted), was also the lover of her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi. This at a time when Farrow...
Ellis Cose's Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World (HarperCollins; 260 pages; $24) is an attempt to break out of what the author calls "the well-worn rut into which racial reflections and conversations commonly fall." A pit of conceptual quicksand would be more like...
Harvard is not getting the top athletes simply because they cannot get in. If it means accepting a quarterback who didn't author a novel by the time he was 12, so be it. All of the other Ivy League schools get away with...