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...highlight of our collaboration came in May, when five of the experts joined TIME's editors for lunch and worked through the list. "The rules were simple," explains Phil. "Every name got a number: 1 for Must Do, 2 for Maybe, and 3 for No Way. I thought our guests would balk at rating their colleagues so crassly, but they played the game enthusiastically, perhaps because as academics and research funders they are skilled at recognizing talent and used to comparing diverse fields...
...catch: Vanzant wants to do a show about ordinary people with ordinary problems that don't involve having their in-laws' babies. She's not alone. On Sept. 10, MTV VJ and former BET host Ananda Lewis wants to bring back Phil Donahue-style social issues on her own syndicated talk show. (Both shows will air in most U.S. markets.) But Iyanla (ee-yon-la) and Ananda (an-on-da; wait till David Letterman gets them in the same room) face the common belief that only one mononym can get away with nonsensationalistic talk...
...brainy graduate of the University of Chicago with common sense who hired good people and learned to fire those who weren't. She bet the farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate...
...then, Katharine Graham was the most powerful woman in America, no longer shy and awkward but regal and utterly imposing. With an ever more influential newspaper, with Newsweek--which Phil had acquired in 1961--and with an ever more influential salon at her house on a hill in Georgetown, she was Walter Lippmann and Perle Mesta rolled into one. Much has been made of her salon--the network stars, the Vice Presidents, the gray eminences. But her reach was deeper. She was the connective tissue for the permanent substratum of the capital--the one layered with beat reporters, academics...
...DOWNSIDE] Some proponents, like Senator Phil Gramm, question letting current illegals participate and want to limit the totals. And Tom Daschle asks, What about non-Mexican immigrants...