Word: frey
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Demographer William H. Frey of the Brookings Institute projects that whites may account for only 5% of Detroit's population by 2020. If those trends persist, it is unlikely that Detroit will ever again elect a white person to a major citywide post. But Cockrel, 63, may try to buck that trend. She is now studying whether she has the kind of crossover appeal to win a congressional seat out of Detroit...
...Frey, who told TIME he was "very surprised" to get the call, had gone on to write another book, a novel titled Bright Shiny Morning, which received mixed but not universally awful reviews (including a good one from TIME) and which came out in paperback on May 12. The paperback has some passages that were not in the original, including those about a guy who has tapes of phone calls with a talk-show host who has given him a hard time, which has led to speculation that Frey has audiotapes of Oprah. ("The book is fiction," was all Frey...
...Oprah's public shaming was at the time, it pales in comparison to what has happened to Frey since then - in July his 11-day-old son Leo died of a genetic neuromuscular disorder...
...last three years have been surreal and difficult and at times uncomfortable and at times terrible," says Frey. "But at this point, I'm cool with all of it, at peace with all of it. The priorities now are taking care of my family and producing the best work of my life...
...only one of these former feudsters had a syndicated TV show so that the making up could be as public as the breaking up! Oh. Wait. Would Frey ever go back on Oprah's show? He isn't completely ruling it out. "Both parties would have to be comfortable about why I was coming on," he says, "and what I was talking about." And now, Oprah, will you continue to play nice? "The show has wrapped for the season," says dePaul, "and there are no plans to invite him again at this time...