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DIED. Lawrence Lader, 86, journalist turned abortion-rights activist, whom feminist Betty Friedan called the "father" of the movement; in New York City. He became fascinated by the issue while writing about birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and his landmark 1966 book, Abortion, was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. He co-founded the pro-choice group now known as NARAL; lobbied for the manufacture of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in the U.S.; and targeted abortion opponents in lawsuits, including an unsuccessful challenge of the IRS for giving tax exemptions...
...assembled by that preeminent scholar of Broadway music, Robert Kimball, had some nice arcana, like Mercer's rejected lyric for a Harold Arlen tune that, thanks to Ira Gershwin, became "The Man That Got Away." And at the end, one of Mercer's most important interpreters came on stage: Margaret Whiting, still a pistol at 81. The night I attended, she went dry on some lyrics to "One for My Baby," then won the audience back by muttering, in her best saloon-chanteuse alto, "Of all the songs to blow, it had to be this...
...Whiting should have told a story dating back to 1940, when Arlen and Mercer came to her home (Margaret's father was another Mercer collaborator, Richard Whiting; they wrote "Hooray for Hollywood") eager to play a song they had just composed for a Warner Bros. melodrama. From the first bars of "Blues in the Night" ("My momma done tol' me?") everybody knew the song was gold. Inexplicably, it was left off the song list...
...spate of interviews Tuesday, he said that Blair should fix a date precisely by telling a group of senior MPs when he's leaving. He even raised the historical precedent of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was chucked out of power after an unseemly brawl among Tory...
...offer the resources of Harvard University at a price that is affordable to members of the community. Undergraduate courses at the extension school cost between $550 and $825 each while comparable courses at Harvard College carry a price tag of $3,594.As one of 12 children, Jeanne Margaret Nurse’s decision to enroll in the ALB program was motivated by financial considerations. Although she received a scholarship offer to attend the University of Denver, the scholarship would not have been enough to cover all of her expenses, she said.“My parents were not going...