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...that, for Steve Brill, is just the point. "There's more frustration and confusion and cynicism about the media than ever before," he says--and he's counting on it. Brill is majority owner and editor of Content, a monthly debuting in June that aims to be, as he puts it, "a consumer guide to the information age." What Brill seems to be crafting is a mix of the probity of the gray Columbia Journalism Review and the audacity of the early New York magazine. Sample cover lines: THE 10 LAZIEST WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS AND DIANE SAWYER'S THREE SAPPIEST...
Frustrated by the dearth of answers Harvard has been able to provide, the Lam family--living in Hong Kong--has commissioned the Providence law firm of Corrente, Brill and Kusinitz to find out what happened to their 26-year...
...reason for punishment. It's our way of expressing our common beliefs in what's right and wrong." The question is what form retribution should take. At its most elemental level, retribution blurs with revenge. "Some animals deserve to be put off the face of the earth," explains Richard Brill, a retired government cartographer in Denver. But there's a distinction to be made between revenge--a hot, deeply personal desire to hurt the malefactor--and retribution--a statelier and more carefully considered decision to uphold the values of society...
There is a secret at the heart of all John Fogerty's songs, an unbroken connection to the magic and mystery in the American musical past that conjoins Delta blues and garage bands, urban riffs and pedal steel, folklore and the Brill Building. You can find its point of fine convergence in the fierceness of Fogerty's singing, the grace of his imagination, the implacable drive of his spirit. He can do what only the greatest American songwriters can: make music that sounds, even when you first hear it, as if you've known it forever. Music that's more...
...from sunny Tucson, this correspondence from LIONEL BRILL, who missed our last reunion: "By now, I'm sure the whole class knows about our abduction on the way to the 20th. Sheila was assigned to an alien breeding facility and--wouldn't you know it?--I was sent to a labor camp, where I bumped into MATT PEW, who, as you might imagine, was in fine form." Lionel goes on to report that Sheila is still working on her coming-of-age memoir about her tumultuous nine months in utero, and that any classmate interested in participating in the bidding...