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...competitive that you have to work on your style if you want to make any impact," says Jorn Barger, a software designer in Chicago. Good writing on the Net tends to be clear, vigorous, witty and above all brief. "The medium favors the terse," says Crawford Kilian, a writing teacher at Capilano College in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Short paragraphs, bulleted lists and one-liners are the units of thought here...
Columnist Joseph Kraft studies the Democratic field, staring at the political teeth, smacking the ideological haunches. Max Lerner agrees with many commentators, including the Chicago Tribune's Michael Kilian, that the Reagan landslide has "all but wiped out Ted's strategic position." The Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey Sperling demurs: "[Edward Kennedy] seems well positioned to become the de facto head of the party-and to be its 1984 presidential candidate." Meantime, New York magazine's Michael Kramer knocks out the Republican early form: "Where is Kemp today? He is a front runner...
Carter's admission that lust as well as trust can cross his mind is, according to Art Buchwald, "a gift from the gods." The humorist unwrapped the gift and wrote of his own mate eying him keenly at a party for signs of concupiscence. Chicago Tribune Columnist Michael Kilian examines Carter's statements on tax reform and concludes: "I'd much rather have Jimmy look with lust upon my wife than upon my wallet." Cartoonist Pat Oliphant recently drew Carter hiding among peanut sacks in the attic while Rosalynn went after him with a shotgun. "Jimmy Carter...
...sort of ecclesiastical relay race, with the baton passing from bishop to bishop and the whole team disqualified if someone drops it. Ordination by a bishop, critics note, was not always required even among Catholics. In the early Christian churches and even in medieval times, as Benedictine Theologian Kilian McDonnell points out in the current issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, "orders" were sometimes conferred by another priest or even by the lay elders of the community, as they are in some Protestant churches today...
...election. Working from his reporters' lengthy files, English knocked out a rough draft of half the book in New York before Election Day. He shifted to London for seven weeks of fevered final writing, much of the time locked in a room with his closest collaborator, Correspondent Richard Kilian. "We thought we were never going to finish," English says...