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Candor alone won't restore confidence in the NRC, which since its inception in 1974 has been accused of being too cozy with the industry it regulates. During a House oversight subcommittee hearing last fall, Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts compared the agency to "Sergeant Schultz in the old Hogan's Heroes TV show, wandering through the barracks ignoring obvious violations and saying, 'I see nothing, I hear nothing.'" Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware has asked the Government Accounting Office for a sweeping assessment of NRC effectiveness. The report, due in May, is expected to be scathing. Among its findings...
...first of three novellas contained in the real David Leavitt's new book, Arkansas (Houghton Mifflin; 198 pages; $23). Sure enough, in a vertiginous display of life imitating art imitating life, those words, plus some sexually explicit terms that follow, got the real Leavitt in trouble all over again. Edward Kosner, editor in chief of Esquire, abruptly canceled the scheduled appearance of The Term Paper Artist in the April issue, causing the magazine's fiction editor to resign in high dudgeon and fueling literary gossip for weeks...
...Shanley (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone), is, unfortunately, a model of what playwrights should avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline--and Cher...
...members of the class of 1991, only 65 reported going into public interest upon graduation, but the five-year reunion guide indicated that 91 are currently employed in the public interest sector, a total of 17 percent of the class. First-year law student Edward M. Grauman said he felt the study was inconclusive...
Gage University Professor Emeritus Edward M. Purcell died Friday in his Cambridge home...