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...Howard Stern between hard covers is, in her own world, as controversial as either. A former reporter for the National Enquirer, she joined Simon & Schuster in 1988 without a lick of book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound; to readers of gossip columns, the most entertaining book editor in New York City. Three years ago she spent...
...prose didn't seem to faze her. "My position is not to take a position," she says. "I sell books, and allow people to have their say." Yet she admits that some of Stern's material bothered her, especially his verbal assaults on her other clients, like Limbaugh and Gifford: "It is not my job to censor Howard Stern, although I have to say it was very painful to sit there and deal with the fact that he had some nasty things to say about some of my friends...
...Beth Gifford, Cornell (Fr., F) Langhorne, Pa. Gifford picked a big spot for the first goal of her collegiate career. Hers was the only tally in Cornell's 1-0 victory over Harvard. A Cornell freshman hadn't scored a goal since the 1990 season...
...bogus news tie-in. Last week's Academy of Country Music Awards on NBC gave Atlanta's WXIA-TV a chance to interview singers Travis Tritt and Doug Stone on the urgent subject of "why country music is so popular." New York's WABC-TV used a Kathie Lee Gifford special on motherhood as the pretext for a feature on her TV partner Regis Philbin's exercise regimen...
...Gifford said the settlement "doesn't solve the problem" and the Fund will continue challenging similar expansion attempts by the University in the future. She said she hopes "Harvard will not pretend [in the future] to have parking spaces when they...