Word: publicness
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Larry Sirinsky's comments concerning Dutch, Edmund Morris' biography of Ronald Reagan, reflect a common confusion about the nature of fact vs. fiction [LETTERS, Oct. 25]. As a bookseller, I face similar misconceptions from the reading public every day. As a student of history, I have long pondered the line between fact and fiction. And as a writer of fiction, I have crossed that line innumerable times. Sirinsky says, "The interweaving of fact and fiction has no place in a biography." That's fine if you imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone...
...keep controversial feminist author NAOMI WOLF'S role as adviser to AL GORE'S struggling presidential campaign under wraps? Hers, according to the account she offered in the New York Times. But that was news to some Gore campaign officials, who said Wolf had been agitating for a more public profile. She finally blew her own cover with her ostentatious presence at Gore's New Hampshire forum with BILL BRADLEY two weeks ago, where she ignored suggestions to stay away from reporters, say Gore advisers...
...number of students in U.S. colleges and universities is expected to grow 14% by 2009, to 16.3 million. That is likely to increase the money crunch at many public institutions. A look at recent trends, by the numbers...
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