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...Wislawa Szymborska has been awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature [Milestones, Oct. 14], one can hardly buy her poems in Polish bookstores--they are sold out. These days our life-style has changed; we scarcely have time for poems. It is sad that we need a kind of hype to get interested in the wonders of poetry. This Nobel Prize serves to remind us that it is time to strengthen our weak cultural awareness. MACIEJ FRANKIEWICZ Konin, Poland
First, there is pro football. Football, however, only happens on Sunday and only the Super Bowl is worth one week's worth of hype...
...saga of Richard Jewell, onetime Olympic hero turned bomber suspect reached its conclusion this week, as the FBI cleared him in their continuing investigation, pending further evidence. The news came 88 days after The Atlanta Journal fingered Jewell as the focus of the FBI's probe. Frenzied media hype followed the initial headlines. You remember the camera crews staked outside of the security guard's house, the sensational news headlines and the interviews with psychologists, who were kind enough to explain the "complex" that led Richard Jewell to endanger people's lives. And now, 88 days later, he has been...
...council has not yet paid the bill for the agent, according to Hyman. The IOP paid for the band, Expanding Man, which performed at HYPE...
...total cost of HYPE was approximately $8,000-$10,000, with Expanding Man accounting for $1,000 of that, according to McLaughlin...