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...Cynthia Cooper has written a play that includes Gibson and has attempted to correspond with her. But, says Cooper, "Billie Jean King told me [Gibson] was very private and really didn't like to be bothered." King herself remembers a different Gibson, before she turned recluse. "She would always come into the locker room to say hi and just make an effort to be really friendly to all of us." But then the silence settled in, and it has taken King years to arrange to see her; finally this week she has an appointment to visit, together with Zina Garrison...
...International Church of Scientology declared "the end of an era of religious terrorism" after winning a recent suit brought against them by Cynthia Kisser, the former director of the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), and a controversial panelist in a recent ARCO forum event on the issue of cults at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Bible class early and were about to go upstairs to help run the adult service. But before they got there, a timed-explosive device planted under the church steps ripped massive holes in the side of the building, sending stone, glass and metal flying in every direction. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Robertson--ages 11 to 14--died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South, even in a city so beset by explosives that it was nicknamed Bombingham, this was a uniquely shocking crime. Recalls Representative John Lewis...
...annual conference as a kind of fascinating academic comedy club, where nutty professors delivered papers on "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Three years ago, when Alter's group came together, some of the biggest names in American letters signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. "I don't think the MLA is the evil empire," says Alter, who maintains membership in both groups. "It's an umbrella organization. But academic people are conformist. With 30,000 people under one big top, you have...
...CYNTHIA MCFADDEN A resume chock-full Can't quite see Prime Time Live of heavy-hitting, her whipping up an correspondent, ABC award-winning, egg-white omelette serious-journalist with Richard Simmons. stuff...