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...what that looks like.”But the hands holding the copyright to “Gone With the Wind”—Mitchell’s heirs—thought Randall’s parody looked too much like the original.The Mitchell estate sued to block its publication. Novelists Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, and Toni Morrison, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 signed a petition supporting Randall’s work. Nonetheless, in April 2001, U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell blocked the publication of the novel, writing that...
...Grigg fell to their Bantam opponents. The setback, however, proved key in preparation for the Crimson’s road match at Yale. Both Bantam and Bulldog matches always draw noisy crowds of spectators. “That match [against Trinity] showed us how we had to mentally block out everyone cheering against [us],” Fast said. So against Yale, it wasn’t the fans who made the difference for the defending champs. Instead, five Harvard wins—including Lorentzen’s five-game thriller over two-time defending Individuals champion Michelle Quibell?...
...written for The New York Times and Newsweek.Her interest in journalism began early and ran deep.In fifth grade, she inadvertently made waves when she conducted a poll of fellow students’ opinions on abortion and the Vietnam War.“Not being the loudest person on the block, not being one who regularly interrupted in class or caused a scene, I discovered that through writing I could make my views heard,” Faludi told Brian Lamb in a 1992 “Booknotes” interview. At Harvard, Faludi concentrated in history and literature, and worked...
DIED. Hugh Patterson Jr., 91, levelheaded publisher of the now defunct Arkansas Gazette who in 1957 stood against segregation in the face of racist mobs that, in defiance of a 1954 Supreme Court ruling, tried to block black students from matriculating at Little Rock's Central High School; in Little Rock, Ark. The paper suffered circulation and ad- revenue losses exceeding $1 million for its stance on the issue but later won two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the federal-state confrontation...
...Iraqis make sense of the carnage? For many, the only way to cope is to block out the daily reports of civilian deaths--such as the story of U.S. troops' opening fire last week on a car carrying two women, or of Islamic extremists gunning down a tennis coach and two of his players last month for wearing shorts. Iraqis honed their imperviousness to atrocity under Saddam Hussein, when the regime killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. But the sheer numbers of victims from this war has deepened the desensitization. That may explain why the debates about the overall...