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Creating the sort of confusion perhaps not seen since the papal schism of 1378, two women claim to be the rightful holder of the title of Miss North Carolina. In June REBEKAH REVELS, bottom, won the state pageant and the honor of competing for Miss America. But then a former--and clearly still bitter--boyfriend wrote pageant officials offering to share two topless pictures of Revels he took several years ago (without her knowledge while she was dressing, she claims). Revels resigned, and the crown passed to first runner-up MISTY CLYMER, left. Revels, however, had a change of heart...
...Laval of the National Federation of Book Publishers, "reflects France's relationship with literature. There are 60 million French readers - and 60 million aspiring French writers." Some French literary types think that may be too many - and that quality is suffering. Publishers, they charge, are so reluctant to miss a potential best-seller that increasing numbers of mediocre writers make it into print, while true talents get lost in the shuffle. Literature professor and essayist Pierre Jourde - whose scathing treatise, Literature Without Guts, won an award from the Académie Française in June - argues that the overproduction...
...Feinberg has a big personality, and he is hit or miss on first impression. He missed with Steve Campbell, a New York City police officer whose wife was killed in the World Trade Center collapse. "Your offer spits on my wife, spits on my son and spits on my father-in-law," Campbell told him during one of Feinberg's first Manhattan meetings with the families of Sept. 11 victims. The Campbell meeting was not rock bottom. "Staten Island," says Feinberg. "Staten Island was the worst. Very, very heated. Just awful. It's on CNN; I've got the tape...
Friends and former students said they will miss Hunt and that his knowledge of Harvard will be hard to replace...
...Huidekoper added that she will miss all of the people she has worked with at Harvard...