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...Maggie Scarf's life has fallen into place very neatly--a Nieman fellow and well-known free lancer, she has published articles regularly in The New York Times Magazine, and has published several books. Yet with all this behind her, Scarf does not attribute her journalistic fortunes solely to talent or luck. Rather, she feels they are a direct result of her "hanging in" ability, of her tenacity...
...Scarf does not look like someone who has had to struggle through the journalist's world. Although 43, she looks a decade younger. The aggressiveness one would imagine she needed to succeed as a writer seems not to have affected Scarf personally. The impression one gets when meeting her is that she has successfully retained her warmth and a sense of humor. Perhaps the best way to contrast her to other journalists is the contrast she herself saw at the first few Nieman fellow conferences. The other fellows continually shot questions to the speakers; they asked "tough questions and even...
...Although Scarf speaks as if her journalistic successes came about quite naturally, they did not. Tenacity, to a large extent, created her career. "I was an early drop-out. I finished three years of college and then got married and spent the next ten years trying to finish school. And when I was almost finished, we'd move," Scarf says with a shrug that indicates she feels no regret. After this ten-year long attempt to finish school, Scarf turned to writing children's books because of what she saw as a need for some sort of personal fulfillment...
Mary Lou Fackler--whose real name is America Lou--is a tall, slender blonde with long, straight hair, lots of blue eyeshadow and pink nails that match her pink jersey and the long, gauzy scarf around her neck. Like most of the transfer students I talked to, she says she applied to Radcliffe because of academics. "I always grew up with the idea that this was the best place," she says, a belief reinforced when she noticed that all the psychology textbooks she used at Ohio State University were written by Harvard professors...
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull) an honorary degree, he turned it down. "I don't believe in degrees," he said, accepting instead an honorary mechanic's license. Arriving for the ceremonies, Bach cut an unconventional figure on campus, attired in a black leather flying jacket and white parachute-silk scarf. Come January, Embry-Riddle is in for more surprises. Bach, whose most recent book is A Gift of Wings, will teach a 15-week two-credit seminar on "philosophy of flight." The curriculum should elicit gasps from commercial pilots and shudders from airline passengers. The students "will have to spend...