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Tonight there will be no letting up as the Crimson encounter Michael Jordan (no joke) for the first time. The Penn freshman has been eating up the Ivies just like his namesake, garnering Rookie of the Week honors four times.
On Thursday evening I encounter Dick Morris on the 5:30 shuttle to Washington for his appearance on Larry King Live. He introduces me to his frail 86-year-old father, whom he puts his arm around, happy that he's come from Florida to keep Morris company. He's...
Unlike Sutton, Pollak, a former editor for the Nation, met Dr. B. The writer's younger brother Stephen spent five years at the Orthogenic School before his accidental death in 1948. Meeting some 20 years later, Bettelheim loftily informed Pollak that his father had been an ineffective "schlemiel," that his...
But recently Jones' claims have been receiving a more respectful hearing. Stuart Taylor, a former New York Times reporter who now works for the American Lawyer, has become Jones' most prominent champion, arguing that hers is a strong case of sexual harassment. Taylor notes, for example, that there is solid...
Who knows what lies ahead? When I think about it, I am engulfed by a sea of fear, insecurity and nostalgia. It is hard to leave the only thing you have really known for four years to tackle a powerful and frightening world, from which we have been sheltered during...