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Under McMullan's one-man rule over both the news and editorial departments, the Herald (circ. 443,000) often managed the difficult feat of remaining fresh and vigorous while dominating its market and growing rich. McMullan also set a rarer standard among U.S. dailies: a newspaper that consistently is crisply written, carefully edited and cleanly organized. The lively news town and the combative editor were made for each other, and McMullan molded the Herald for the town. Says City Manager Howard Gary: "McMullan is the conscience that all cities need." Adds Kurt Luedtke, a former Herald colleague and author...
...most--"mentors" are crucial to the growth of the sense of oneself as a scholar. Yet a number of male Faculty members have told me recently that they intend henceforth to be much more careful in showing personal interest in women students. Invitations to coffee may become much rarer for women students It what I hear bears any relation to reality...
...have heard there are going to be some hockey games at Bright Center this weekend. In fact, that may be all you've heard. Crimson hockey squads don't go to the nationals every year--far from it--and even rarer does Harvard earn the privilege of home ice. Not-withstanding these facts, there's more to the sports-world than just Harvard hockey. Such...
What ever happened to science fiction? In the 70s, readers were inundated with novels by giants of the genre: Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and scores of others. But bookstore shelves have grown barer and the names rarer. Even so, a handful of practitioners show that this may be merely a hiatus before the renaissance...
...responsibility to exercise its power with delicacy, the ability of the printed word to wreak havoc in people's lives, the need for social restraints to balance writers' unassailable freedom to publish whatever they want. It's rare, however, that the book industry faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will do well to watch closely as a French publishing house and two Parisian author-journalists grapple the moral questions surrounding their publication of a how-to manual on committing suicide...