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Franklin L. Ford, a former dean of the Faculty who spent nearly 40 years as a prominent member of the history department, died on Aug. 31 at a retirement home in Lexington, Mass., following complications from a stroke...
Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, Ky., has been the host for Code-themed dinners, and is having a tough time keeping up with the demand. It has held four such events at $30 a head. Each sold out. More are planned...
Born in New York City and raised in North Carolina, Carroll, 62, previously edited the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky and the Baltimore Sun in Maryland. He maintains an elegant Southern gentility that leads him to preface his critiques with "I am inclined to think" and spreads credit for the paper's success widely among his staff. But few doubt he is the force behind the Times's renaissance, achieved at a time when editors of two rival papers showed just how precarious the job can be. In the past year, two of his peers--Howell Raines...
...Prize Board, he has a fine-tuned instinct for spotting prizewinning potential--stories that he calls bell ringers. These, he says, are pieces that require in-depth reporting, have universal resonance and "tell me something I didn't know." His staffs won three Pulitzers while he was editor in Lexington and Baltimore, and since arriving at the Times, Carroll has helped line edit four stories that won Pulitzers--including an expose of unsafe prescription drugs, whose opening paragraphs he reworked "at least a dozen times...
...Especially on Marathon Monday, if the Beanpot was right after, people would have to stay,” said Klimkiewicz, a Lexington native who also attended a local high school. “Who wouldn’t want to see the four Boston-area teams playing each other? And I’m sure they would have made a lot of money, keeping the concessions stands open...