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...come to care about Clifford Irving. You remember Clifford - the second-tier novelist who claimed he was writing the authorized biography of the twentieth century's most famous recluse, Howard Hughes. Somehow he got a couple of big-time publishing entities, McGraw-Hill and Life magazine, to believe him. The evidence he produces to prove he has Hughes's cooperation is slender (almost transparently fraudulent), but as with all great scam artists, his success depends entirely on the willingness of his victims to suspend disbelief, Or, putting it another way, to allow their greed to override their common sense. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imperfect Trio: The Hoax, Fracture and Perfect Stranger | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...There are also smaller lectures taking place at local libraries, churches and quilt guilds all over the country. The story has also ended up in lesson plans and textbooks (TIME For Kids even published an article about Hidden in Plain View in a middle school art book published by McGraw Hill in 2005). Recently the issue got national attention when plans in New York City to include a quilt element in a Central Park Memorial statue of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist, raised the ire of historians, who asked the city reconsider using quilts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unravelling the Myth of Quilts and the Underground Railroad | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...junior Michael McGraw-Herdeg said earlier this week that there had not been too much student reaction to Sherley’s protest...

Author: By Jessica A. Estep, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Professor Ends Hunger Strike | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...haven’t seen a lot of reaction on campus yet [which] is the interesting thing,” said McGraw-Herdeg, who is the president of MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech...

Author: By Jessica A. Estep, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Professor Ends Hunger Strike | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...country into our communal Crimson heart. Instead of listening to the insipid independent rock of Beck—how I hate him—or the philistine shouting of “Them Franchise Boys” at your parties, embrace the take-no-prisoners drawl of Tim McGraw. He’s more rugged, more direct and not nearly so French...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: To Harvard’s Philistines | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

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