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...getting hard to tell a good lie--or at least it must seem that way to Sandra Baldwin, the first woman to be named chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and, as of two weeks ago, the first to resign the post. As far as anyone knows, Baldwin had not told a fib in years, but the last one she did tell was a doozy. On her widely publicized resume, she misrepresented the school from which she earned her bachelor's degree and listed a Ph.D. she never finished. The lies hung around until an alumni magazine threatened to reveal...
...consolation to Baldwin, she is not alone in her dissembling. Last week Washington fire chief Ronnie Few agreed to resign when his college degree and a fire-chief-of-the-year award turned out to be fabrications. In the past six months, coaches at Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt were all caught with fiction on their resumes. And these followed a parade of high-profile folks accused of falsifications, including Pat Robertson (claimed he saw combat in Korea), Senator Joseph Biden (inflated his law-school class rank) and historian Joseph Ellis (made up stories about parachuting into Vietnam...
Instead, The Hamptons (June 2 and 3, 9 p.m. E.T.) is a sweeping, empathetic picture of the people who crowd this getaway every summer. Yes, there's plenty of name-dropping: Alec Baldwin, Billy Joel, Kristin Davis, Christie Brinkley and rap mogul Russell Simmons. But there are also young professionals partying in 30-person share houses, immigrant waitresses and the cops, clammers and gas pumpers who live there year round...
RESIGNED. SANDY BALDWIN, 62, first female president of the U.S. Olympic Committee; after admitting to misrepresenting her academic credentials in her biography; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Baldwin, who said she had a doctorate but in fact did not finish her dissertation--she was called to care for her younger siblings after her parents died--said, "I should have changed it a long time ago, but once it was published, it got paralyzing...
...World Trade Center site would be a library. Not a great, imposing library with white marble busts of Keats and Erasmus, or antique reading lamps with shades of green glass, or vaults of rare manuscripts, or stacks that rise to heaven, or stone animals out front. (James Baldwin wondered if the New York Public Library lions were posted to protect him when he was inside, or to keep him out.) What I have in mind is a regular old local branch library, with kids bopping in, and retirees bent over newspapers, and a librarian who looks very much like Laura...