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Honor thy father and thy mother is a sound precept in life, but dubious advice for a writer. From James Joyce to Tennessee Williams, from Virginia Woolf to Mary Gordon, modern literature has thrived on an undercurrent of patricide and matricide. Monstrous parents, it seems, are what gifted children barely survive in order to write about them with inspired resentment. Loving memoirs tend to rank second only to corporate histories of tool-and-die companies as the kind of book any reader can put down. In the face of this, Wilfrid Sheed, a witty, acerbic critic and novelist (Office Politics...
...will sell only 5,000 copies at best, compared with a hot video like Raiders of the Lost Ark ($39.95), which has sold more than 745,000. Still, many companies view the tapes as bargains. A top author charges $20,000 to lecture for a day. --By Gordon M. Henry. Reported by Peter Ainslie/New York
...American society. "So many people on either side of the debate are the personification of the ideas being challenged," says David Douglas, a graduate last spring. "It's more than an intellectual debate for them. It's a critique of their life's work." Third-Year Law Student Dan Gordon puts it more dryly: "It's hard to distinguish the personal animosities from the intellectual arguments...
...expected solutions or even hard-and-fast recommendations from last week's meeting, nor should they have. Historically, major monetary reforms have been preceded by years of such brainstorming sessions. Nonetheless, the world's money system clearly seems headed toward more stable exchange rates. --By Gordon M. Henry. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington
...addition to recognizing their fellow students, ABHW also presented the Vanguard Award to BET broadcaster Ed Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has interviewed many high-profile politicians and entertainers...