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...Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor is a humbler story, set not in New York or Washington but in Kennebunk, Maine. The paper in question isn't an influential national daily with a staff of thousands and a news room the size of an airplane hangar, but a small weekly struggling to survive. The issues aren't Watergate or the Vietnam war, but whether the town should build a water tower behind a local church, and whether the school bus should change its route in order to pick up Herman Cohen's children...
...series was postponed at the last minute when Burton and Spielberg were reportedly unhappy with the animation. Family Dog was sent back to the shop, and what followed was a two-year odyssey in which the missing series became a running gag between TV reporters and network programmers. Now, with a lack of fanfare that would be mystifying if it weren't so revealing, Family Dog is finally being let out of the kennel for a summer run, when the only significant viewer reaction is likely to be a puzzled, What was all the fuss about...
...networks comes in as many flavors as there are positions in the Kama Sutra. If your taste runs to explicit pictures, there are thousands of them on such bulletin boards as Nixpix in Aspen, Colorado, and Odyssey in Monrovia, California. Jim Maxey, a former journalist and part-time private eye who runs the Event Horizons system in Lake Oswego, Oregon, grossed $3.5 million last year from computer users willing to pay $9 an hour to connect to his bulging database of R- and X-rated digital images and film loops...
When Jennifer Wilbert of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, developed schizophrenia at 16, she began a distressing odyssey through the mental-health-care system. Overwhelmed by dangerous delusions, terror and frequent bouts of depression, she needed immediate hospitalization. That is when her parents, Rob and Joan, discovered that their insurance would pay for only 30 days of care. It was not enough. Jennifer, who is now 21, was hospitalized at first for four months. To care for her daughter with constant supervision at home, Joan Wilbert took a leave of absence from her job as a clerk at the state department of revenue...
Among those caught up in the storm was Katherine Washington. Though she was only an innocent and terrified bystander during the upheaval, 25 years later it still affects her life and the lives of her children. What sets Katherine apart from most low-income blacks is that a long odyssey she began amid the smoke and flames of the riot will soon reach a triumphant conclusion. She owes her good fortune to a combination of factors that are in short supply in the inner city: strong family ties; steady work, although for low wages; and help from both the government...