Word: howards
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...subtle and evocative opening to E.M. Forster's Victorian romance, Howard's End, the words "only connect" take on a profound meaning in 28-year-old Michael Byers' debut collection of evocative short stories about unfulfilled longings and lives around the fog-shrouded Seattle shore. A Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University, Byers himself transmutes into the characters of his creation by an impressive flex of his literary muscles...
...long run, however, Starr's greater sin may be naming the three reporters his office "spoke extensively" with -- Susan Schmidt of the Washington Post, Jackie Judd at ABC and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff. The Post's media guru Howard Kurtz talks of a "genuine sense of discomfort in media ranks" that Starr would simply name names so easily. Even more discomforting for the all-day news networks: Their grand jury sources have suddenly dried up. For once, no one knows in advance which witness will appear Tuesday. Looks like Johnson's verbal spanking is working already...
DIED. DOROTHY STICKNEY, 101, original spouse in Broadway's longest-running play, the fusty comedy Life with Father; in Manhattan. Stickney starred with Howard Lindsay, the play's co-author and her real-life husband. In 1939 the couple left a glitch-filled opening night in tears, but audiences adored the play's domestic drollery, sitting through seven years and some 3,200 performances...
...very colorful House master," Howard Georgi said of Finley. "He was terrific. That's, I think, an impossible standard, but in some senses, that's my picture of a House master...
...within the House system this past year increased the presence of women on campus. In the spring, Lewis appointed Diana L. Eck master of Lowell House, making her the only women to follow in the footsteps of Sandra Naddaff, the current master of Mather House. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, who will become master of Leverett House in the fall, is applauded for his longtime support of undergraduate women in the sciences...