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...well-known crater, 35 km (22 miles) across, that lies partly buried near Manson, Iowa. Its age, established by radioactive dating: 65 million years. / Shoemaker believes the new findings will help persuade more scientists to "get off the fence" and side with the Alvarez theory. "Chicxulub is the smoking cannon," he says, "and Manson is the smoking pistol...
...that has impelled both of them to sacrifice so much of what a marriage ought to be. "I knew when I married him that I married the struggle, the liberation of my people," says Winnie in her 1984 autobiography. Over the years, however, Winnie became something of a loose cannon, detonating one major political explosion after another...
Veteran political reporter Lou Cannon has earned glowing reviews for President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, a 948-page opus that charts its subject's ! political journey from Sacramento to Washington. So why haven't you heard more about it? That's simple: the book was released barely a week before Kitty Kelley's hit-and-run job on Nancy Reagan. Cannon is upset that Simon & Schuster, publisher of both biographies, didn't live up to a verbal agreement to keep the release of the Kelley book separate from his own tome. After numerous leaks about the Kelley book...
...problem is that too many people seem to be writing theses," said Christopher D. Cannon '87, English tutor for Winthrop House. The new restrictions will keep only those interested in rigorous scholarship writing theses, he said. "Otherwise they're a waste of everyone's time...
PRESIDENT REAGAN: THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME by Lou Cannon (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). This is not the Reagan book that everyone is talking about -- though, oddly enough, from the same publisher -- but it is essential reading, compiled by a veteran journalist and Ronnie watcher, for anyone interested in the star politics of the 1980s...