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Boston Globe columnist Betsy Lehman, 39, died at Dana-Farber last year, from an overdose of drugs shielding her from the side effects of chemotherapy...
...absence of heroes--"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"--yet when it has someone who daily displays grit, generosity, spirit and skill, not to mention incredibly blue eyes, what does it do? It looks this generation's gift horse in the mouth. Robert Lipsyte, the respected New York Times columnist, recently suggested that Ripken take a seat rather than sully Gehrig's memory. And the hate mail that Ripken has received this summer has been of such volume and venom that Major League Baseball has had to beef up the security around...
...mention one of the best--and most idiosyncratic. Columnist Pete Hamill, in a glowing introduction to the first volume of excerpts from this work in progress, called A Diary of the Century (Kodansha; 578 pages; $25), proposes, "There are human beings not yet born who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis." Far more than a personal memoir, the diaries record practically everything Ellis said, did, thought, felt, read or saw, accompanied by copies of newspaper stories he wrote as well as letters he sent and received. This glorious mishmash constitutes an informal...
MOLLY IVINS Columnist prepares public apology after rival charges plagiarism
Such gains have earned Buffett, 64, a personal fortune worth some $12 billion in Berkshire stock and made him the second-richest man in America after his friend Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. "In the annals of investing, Warren Buffett stands alone," observes Wall Street Journal columnist Roger Lowenstein, whose biography of Buffett will be published by Random House later this month. According to Lowenstein, an investor who had placed $10,000 with Buffett in 1956 would have holdings today worth about $95 million...