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Since Kliban, it has been shown that cats are just as hilarious-and profitable-when they are dead. English-educated Simon Bond, 34, a bachelor who lives in Phoenix and London, was encouraged to publish 101 Uses for a Dead Cat by his friend Terry Jones, a Monty Python regular. Deceased felines in Bond's black humor pose as toast racks, pencil sharpeners and potholders. Although the book has sold 765,000 copies in the U.S., the mood is too indigo for some ailurophiles. Says A.S.P.C.A.'S John Kullberg: "Coming upon the book is akin to being...
...Lyndon Johnson prompted a flurry of news stories. Zuckerman expects a similar reaction to two selections from Garry Wills' forthcoming book, The Kennedy Imprisonment, an analysis of John Kennedy's presidency, to run in the January and February issues. Later in the year, the Atlantic will publish parts of Reporter Seymour Hersh's book on Henry Kissinger. The magazine's editors insist that their primary focus remains in-depth nonfiction and literate fiction. Says Zuckerman: "We really are not pursuing breaking news-but we don't mind making...
...went on for two hours and 20 minutes. At the end, Walesa came away with an offer from Jaruzelski to open negotiations on a wide range of social and economic issues, including Solidarity's key demands for an important role in running the economy and the right to publish its views without censorship. Jaruzelski also discussed with Walesa and the Archbishop his plan to involve government, church and union in a national front for permanent dialogue, a consultative forum composed of leading Polish social and political figures, but one that stopped far short of being a national coalition government...
...serious side squirmed and printed a lame editorial claiming the right to publish a rumor that it found "utterly impossible to believe." Many readers assumed that lawyers had cobbled together this apologetic phrase, hoping to mitigate libel damages. Not so, says Publisher Donald Graham, 36. The responsibility was his. Defending the editorial soon became more awkward than defending the gossip item. It infuriated the paper's national desk. As for Bradlee, he disclaimed any part in the editorial and seemed to be reliving the days of Deep Throat; he had been "eyeball to eyeball" with the gossip columnist...
Institute members will select the lectures, each of whom will receive $25,000, and Harvard University Press will publish the lectures...