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...course, the old traditions are sometimes worth preserving. The two most provocative new shows of the fall revive a venerable genre that has been under-represented of late: the medical drama. CBS's Chicago Hope, created by David E. Kelley (Picket Fences), has name stars -- Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, E.G. Marshall -- and provides familiar TV pleasures. It's a self-important but frequently entertaining mix of Ben Casey melodrama (should an operation be performed to separate two Siamese twins, even though both may die?) and St. Elsewhere-style modernism (the surgeons sing Midnight Train to Georgia around the operating table...
...Genovese of being as self-righteous as the radicals he criticizes. Sean Wilentz of Princeton University persuasively argues that Genovese has painted with too broad a brush and fails to credit those leftists -- including Dissent's founding editors -- who early on rejected Bolshevism and all its works. Robin D.G. Kelley of the University of Michigan argues that Genovese has a hidden agenda -- namely, to add the left's silence on Stalinism to the list of ideological crimes committed by "politically correct" radicals on U.S. campuses...
Under Snyder, Simon & Schuster became almost as avid as a Hollywood studio in its pursuit of hot properties and star writers. Among the authors it rewarded with big advances were Jackie Collins, Mary Higgins Clark, Kitty Kelley, Bob Woodward, Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly paid $7 million for his memoirs. For class, Simon & Schuster plucked Philip Roth away from his prestige publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Although only about 10% of Simon & Schuster's revenues come from trade publishing, that is where the glitz lies. Says top literary agent Morton Janklow: "Trade publishing is like couture in fashion...
Commissioner Julius Kelley would disagree. "We needed a black on the commission, and we got a good one," he says. Kelley can afford to be generous. He is living proof that cumulative voting's leg up to minorities is color blind. Like blacks, Chilton's white Republicans were hungry political underdogs. They too "plumped" -- and reaped three commissioners' seats...
...There are universities that are teachingcourses over the Internet using software to set updiscussion groups, and classes are being conductedthat way," says Deborah Kelley-Milburn, a researchlibrarian in Widener Library who works with thenetwork...