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...DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball...
...life isn't worth living--even if that life has entailed becoming incomprehensibly rich on a roller-coaster ride of sex, tongue wriggling and rock 'n' roll. No wonder then that GENE SIMMONS, the bassist for Kiss, has laid down his life story--from his birth in Israel as Chaim Witz to his band's farewell tour--in a new autobiography, Kiss and Make-Up. Along with dirt on drug-crazed bandmates ("No different than your dad, who, when he comes home, gets drunk and becomes a moron," he tells TIME) and his relationships with Cher and Diana Ross...
...easy to see why some people would find Booker's record hard to believe: he played tight end for Stanford's football team. At Oxford, he was elected president of the Jewish L'Chaim society--even though he's a Baptist. He's a vegetarian, and says he has never drunk alcohol. And did we mention he once talked a suicidal fellow student out of jumping...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of Kosher Sex and the forthcoming Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments, and the founder and director of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University: "Since God loves the humble and the meek, he always roots for the loser and the underdog. So clearly he is rooting for the New York Jets...
...recipient of a multitude of honors and awards, Stern was on tour to promote his autobiography, My First 79 Years, written with Chaim Potok...