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...come to the bazaar for sport: New York hoaxer Alan Abel, for example, specializes in planting false news items, like last fall's stories about the bogus $35 million lottery winner. Others show up because it is their job. Writing in the Gannett Center Journal, Scott Cutlip, a dean emeritus of journalism at the University of Georgia, cited estimates that 40% of the news comes from public relations specialists (who, at 150,000 strong, outnumber the country's 130,000 journalists). Still others try to hawk their stories for money, a trade-off that most respectable publications resist, although "checkbook...
...Garber Facility is named for a diminutive 90-year-old man who still goes to work every day as historian emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution and has done more than any other person to preserve the record of the nation's great venture into flight. Paul E. Garber was born just as the Wright brothers began to inquire about flying machines. When Garber was five, his uncle gave him a kite, and his fascination with the sky was fixed for a long lifetime...
Professor of Afro-American Studies Emeritus Ewart Guinier, who started the Afro-Am Department in 1969, was also a trade unionist and the first Black to run for Manhattan Borough President...
...interview yesterday, Baker Professor of Economics Emeritus Abram Bergson characterized Gorbachev's call for reform as potentially "revolutionary," although the professor said that this move was just the latest in a series of profound political and economic changes in the Soviet Union...
Herschel C. Baker, the Higginson professor of English literature emeritus, died last night of an upper respiratory infection...