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...former National Public Radio (NPR) bureau chief, a prize-winning Chinese journalist and a Romanian political expert will be among the five fellows studying at the Kennedy School of Government's (KSG) media studies center this spring...
There's wisdom in the Reader's Digest bromide that laughter is the best medicine; we could name two recent invalids whose hearts were lifted by David Sedaris' impression of Billie Holiday singing the Oscar Mayer jingle on NPR. But waking old folks at midnight and making loud mischief seem like a manic camp counselor's idea of fun: indoctrination by comedy. The supporting characters, from the hospital dean (Harve Presnell) to Patch's girlfriend (Monica Potter), are similarly bludgeoned. They begin as skeptics and end, their wills crushed, as dewy believers...
...what Radcliffe College billed as the first-annual "Celebrate Radcliffe" day, alumni, staff and a handful of undergraduate women sampled the witty words of noted National Public Radio (NPR) journalist Nina Totenberg, eight panels addressing the college's current programs and a picnic lunch featuring entertainment by female campus choruses...
...great things the woman's movementhas done for me and done for us has been to giveus a community of women at work," said Totenberg,who has spent the past 23 years as a legal affairscorrespondent for NPR...
...those women, says Flynt, whom he's speaking to with his offer: "I'm giving them an upside to coming forward." Flynt has turned for expert help to veteran Washington writer and NPR contributor Rudy Maxa, who flew to Los Angeles last Friday to select the best stories and recruit reporters to pursue them. Maxa says he was lured out of semiscandal retirement by the prospect that some of those discarded on the ash heap of history might emerge to name names. Maxa's claim to fame is exposing former Congressman Wayne Hays and his "assistant" Elizabeth...