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...Lions will most likely replace the departed Witkowski--currently the fourth-string signal caller of the National Football League's Detroit Lions--with sophomore Peter von Schoenmarchk...
Radio Host Howard Stern [SHOW BUSINESS, July 9] is not a "belligerent broadcaster" like the others mentioned in your article who inflame their listeners and prey on their fears. Instead, Stern makes light of personal and cultural differences through his humor. Audiences laugh not at the individual caller but at Stern's comedic madness, which mocks the bigots who thrive on fear...
...President, would you like to go skiing with me?" Truthfully, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 87, does not like skiing much. But the caller was an old and persuasive friend, Pope John Paul II, 64. So last week, by government jet and helicopter, the two were off for a brief ski trip and, said the Pope, "a little fresh air" on the slopes of the Adamello mountain range (which had been considerately cleared of other tourists). Sportily dressed in blue pants and windbreaker, sunglasses and red boots, John Paul made his first known ski outing since becoming Pope six years...
...cannot carry on," he said simply. Aides and friends alike described him as darkly depressed by the 1982 death of his wife Aliza and the continuing toll of a war that was supposed to have been a swift success. Toward the end of his tenure, when a caller complimented him on the invasion of Lebanon, he could only murmur, "But the casualties, the casualties...
...they're probably better off not asking, and trying to figure it out for themselves. That's what I'm going to tell my caller--to figure it out for himself. And when he leaves the great Lamont Library that is Harvard, my only hope is that he will be able to pull out his bag of discoveries, to look the Imperial Checker straight in the eye and say: "Just...