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...about a Ms. Solomon? Jennifer Lawson, the former film professor and civil rights worker who was named to the job last November, has thus far been getting more huzzahs than heat. She basked in the glory of PBS's huge success of September, The Civil War. (The program was set in motion long before she arrived, but Lawson approved its unusual weeklong scheduling.) She has won praise for boosting PBS's profile with such ploys as running ads on the commercial networks. Most of all, she has tamed the ornery PBS bureaucracy with a mix of calm decisiveness and careful...
...that Lawson, 44, doesn't have some fairly radical programming ideas of her own. Among the shows she is developing for PBS are a children's game show and a sitcom about a Soviet family adapting to perestroika. She wants to showcase more pop music and is looking for a dramatic series that would "explore the mood in the country, relationships between people in our cities and rural areas...
Also high on her agenda is bringing more ethnic and cultural diversity to a network whose audience is often stereotyped as "the Chardonnay and Brie crowd." Lawson objects to that characterization. "It's as if opera were only for the elite," she says. "But Leontyne Price came from Mississippi, and we don't know about all the other Leontyne Prices who are out there, who can't afford to get to the Metropolitan Opera but can see it on Great Performances...
...height make much more difference in terms of success in a business career than any paper qualifications you have." Gertner refused to put the author's son on HGH therapy, but some physicians may be more receptive to parental demands. Says Dr. Douglas Frasier, president of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society: "There's a lot of heightism in our society. And there's a sense that if you're not tall enough, somebody ought to be helping you get taller...
Thatcher plainly wanted to stop speculation that she might resign in the wake of the resignation of Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson...