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...Bible story (see the last bit of Genesis for the paperback version). Joseph is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and is taken to Egypt, where, in the the first known Horatio Alger story, he rises to the top and ends up saving his now repentant brothers. Mark Meredith as Joseph has a superb voice and just enough of the pretty boy look about him to make his putting on sunglasses look like a scene from Risky Business. The one petty fault with his performance is that he looks too much the dreamer even for Joseph, with his eyes...
Eighty-year-old Langdell Library at the Law School is just one example of a library with serious climate control problems. Of the 1.5 million volumes in the collection, about one-third are endangered, according to an estimate by Willis Meredith, head of Langdell's preservation department. Meredith says "conditions are very poor" in the main stacks, which are underground and have no air conditioning...
...talking about our cultural heritage falling apart, and we're not going to be able to save all of it," says Meredith...
...something that transcends sport, a program which had to appeal to more than just the Bud-toting football fan, but also to wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still has a job is because of his close personal friendship with the ABC News president. How ironic, coming from...
...personality made Monday Night Football more interesting than other sports telecasts is unchallengable. There is no doubt that people take more notice when they are infuriated, and Cosell's inanities on Monday Night Football did a lot of infuriating. But by directing backhanded slaps at everybody from Gifford and Meredith to CBS color commentator and football God John Madden, Cosell undermines his own credibility. He is not, as he would have it, the only redeeming person in the entire sports world. And while his Sportsbeat show is critically acclaimed, it is not popularly accepted. Cosell has failed to realize that...