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...officially shunned, marginalized. "This generational thing is s____," says Robert Kotlowitz, noting the virulent anti-Semitism he encountered in the Army. He's the author of Before Their Time, a powerful memoir of wartime infantry service. He says that as the son of a cantor who had been trying desperately to get family members out of Warsaw since 1937, he "believed in the war." Believed, that is, in halting the genocide he knew was taking place. But his book is not about that; it is about an 18-year-old kid's chilling terror and loneliness in combat...
DIED. ARTHUR CANTOR, 81, Broadway producer whose wife thought he was "nuts" for investing $2,000 in 1957 in a show called The Music Man and who championed the comic playwrights Paddy Chayefsky and Herb Gardner; in Manhattan. Cantor, a publicist before becoming a producer, hoisted signs for his marquees as humorous as the plays they pushed. One read, "'I laughed my head off'--Marie Antoinette...
...which he tries to sue Sting for breaking up his marriage to Cheri Oteri, and last Tuesday he guested on the Tonight Show. He is going to be host of You Don't Know Jack, a game show for ABC. He talks about wanting to remake the Eddie Cantor movie Kid Millions and writing his autobiography. He's also still pushing the variety show-sitcom Meet the Muckles, which he wrote in the late '80s and spent three years trying to make. Reubens' perfectionism, which led to spiraling costs, along with supportive NBC programming chief Warren Littlefield's firing, scrapped...
...have documented with empirical evidence that racial and ethnic diversity enhance learning and the preparation of our students to work and participate as citizens in our increasing diverse society... We are confident that we will prevail in a higher court," U-M Provost Nancy Cantor said in a press release...
...This morning, the Michigan Daily ran a story announcing that Michigan Provost Nancy E. Cantor had been switched in the university's online directory from "Provost" to "Office of the President" and Cantor's vice provost had been switched to "Provost" in the directory. The Daily speculated that the changes heralded the appointment of an interim president as Bollinger left for Cambridge...