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...accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud. NAMED. WILLIAM CLAY FORD JR., 44, as CEO of Ford Motor Co.; in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford, chairman since 1999, is the first Ford family member to run the company in 22 years. He replaces Jacques Nasser. RESIGNED. JAMES GOODWIN, 57, as CEO of United Airlines; in Chicago. Goodwin's tenure was marred by a failed merger with U.S. Airways and labor troubles. Investors lost confidence when he suggested United might "perish" in the wake of Sept. 11. Goodwin has been replaced by John W. Creighton, former CEO of Weyerhaeuser...
...Doris Kearns Goodwin's essay comparing the World Trade Center tragedy with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [ESSAY, Sept. 24], she wrote that the terrorists "targeted ordinary civilians...working in their offices, walking on the streets." She might have noted that the U.S. targeted and killed immense numbers of civilians when we used atom bombs on two Japanese cities at the end of World War II. In the midst of our grief and outrage, Americans need to examine our conscience and perhaps thereby temper the magnitude of the U.S. response with the humane values of justice, proportion and compassion...
...West are now fetching record prices as well. In late July a 1908 watercolor of a grizzly, right, by Charles M. Russell sold for $2.3 million at the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nev., the highest ever paid for a Russell. A painting by Philip R. Goodwin, which a Wisconsin woman said she couldn't unload for $5 at a garage sale, brought in $55,000. Overall, the five-hour auction racked up a record $14 million from investors who jetted in from as far away as Maine and Florida...
...seller lists. Joseph Ellis' "Founding Brothers" has been on the list for nine months. This fall, Edmund Morris' "Theodore Rex", the second volume of his Theodore Roosevelt biography (the first was his splendid "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"), will have a first printing of over 200,000. Doris Kearns Goodwin, having already studied the Kennedys and the Franklin Roosevelts to handsome effect, is hard at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...Past recipients of the Radcliffe Medal include singer Lena Horne, Harvard President Emeritus Derek C. Bok, American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Harvard Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin, and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno...