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...phenomenon is influencing historical fiction. Even men are catching on to the imaginative possibilities. Earlier this year Ron Hansen dug deep for Hitler's Niece, a novel that cast the teenage Geli Rabaul as Lolita to the Fuhrer's Humbert Humbert...
After 40 years in public education, 10 as a high school principal, I believe I have some insight into a contemporary high school. You have provided your readers with an absolutely accurate picture of a very typical high school, without exaggeration or minimization. By including the full cast of participants--students, parents, teachers, administrators, support staff and outside interest groups--you have made very clear the diverse pressures that are inherent in every public high school. Thank you for illuminating a very complex social/educational institution. EDWARD A. WEST Fairview...
They tell me that, even though it's months before the first primary vote is to be cast, they've interviewed or surveyed or analyzed everybody else in the country. I'm the only one left. If I'm not willing to be a focus group, there can be no more focus groups, and everything will go sort of fuzzy...
...politics is local, and some of it is downright familial. Although the turnout for last week's local elections was tiny in places--11% of eligible voters in New York City cast a ballot--each electorate made itself heard in its own special...
...Filipacchi (Elle, George) who became president and CEO of American Media in May, vows that the Globe acquisition will actually lead to a greater diversity among the big three tabloids. After he and his partners, including ex-Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, bought American Media for $850 million, Pecker cast a cold eye on his new possessions, which had been losing circulation for five years. (The Enquirer, the Star and their wacky sibling, Weekly World News, sell a combined 4.4 million copies weekly, down 35% since 1994.) One reason, he contends, is that "the Enquirer and the Star were really...