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Though a game, Debtbusters is not exactly fun. In 50 state capitals last week, 16-member teams spent three hours debating ways to cut the federal budget. The game's originator, Roger Molander, president of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies in Washington, staged the marathon as a public- education exercise and an informal plebiscite on the deficit...
Tisch had been dissatisfied with Wyman's performance for months, but the new chief executive did not win the support of a majority of the CBS board until last week. In fact, when the marathon board meeting began at 9 a.m., most of the directors apparently had no intention of firing their chairman. The turning point came when Wyman, the sole CBS executive with a board seat, announced he had secretly begun negotiations that could lead to the sale of the $5 billion company to Coca-Cola. The stunned directors, all of whom were determined to keep CBS independent, asked...
Many had witnessed John Belushi's final, drug-filled days in Hollywood, but no one could steer the actor away from his relentless drive for cocaine and, in the end, heroin. Among friends, reports of the comic's marathon binges made his untimely death seem inevitable: another star caught in the darker currents of celebrity...
...Cairo or covering an international marathon race in Peking, Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism. Kesey may have quit the literary major leagues but can still be an exciting writer, whether describing a rampaging billy goat or a fatal car wreck in Egypt: "It's two flimsy Fiat taxis just like ours, amalgamated head on, like two foil gum wrappers wadded together. No cops; no ambulances; no crowd of rubberneckers; just the first of those...
Redford's off-duty hours and vacations turned into a blur of musty documents and marathon interviews of old people with tattered memories. The riddle of her origins, she discovered, lay in the North Carolina coastal plain around Edenton, Creswell and Columbia. Her research filled file drawers, boxes and shelves all over her house, and has finally been collected into a 350-page manuscript. What started as a digest of her own genealogy ended up being nothing less than a family tree of all the descendants of the slaves -- bearing 21 different surnames -- who once worked on one of North...