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...while, Derwin had political aspirations. Some thought it was merely for the school board, but in 1996, he ran in a special election to replace the sheriff. He fared poorly at the polls. Four months later, he tried again and got only a fraction of the votes, losing to Sidney Dorsey, an Atlanta homicide detective who became the county's first black sheriff. The two men had a cordial relationship, but that turned when Derwin announced he was again running for sheriff. The moment television-news cameras caught jail inmates working on projects for Dorsey's wife, Derwin went...
Turns out Network was just a joke. Sidney Lumet, the director of that scathing satire of TV, has adapted his social-issues subject matter into a talky, intriguing, if spotty, series about New York City courts. The dialogue can be as heavyhanded as, well, a Sidney Lumet picture. But Alan Arkin is powerful yet subtle as a liberal judge under attack for setting free a petty crook who then kills a cop. Worth putting on your docket for a probationary period...
According to Sidney H. Verba '53, director of the University Library and Pforzheimer University professor, Harvard accepted the books almost as a favor to the organization...
...premise of your editorial (Dec. 4), that humanities and social science departments are disadvantaged in funding because of alumni contributions towards science initiatives, is a curious one. Self-evidently Robert R. Barker '36 and Sidney R. Knafel '52 (as well as many other generous alumns) were approached to help create the Barker Center for the Humanities and the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies before Charles T. "Ted" Bauer '42 was moved to provide the key gift for the new Life Sciences building. Even if there were a problem with differential funding among the disciplines, it could...
...McCartney's instantly notorious first public comment on John Lennon's murder in December 1980 - "It's a drag" - was at the time held up as an example of gross insensitivity by an estranged friend. In reality it was the understatement of devastation. There's a telling line in Sidney Lumet's 1983 film "Daniel" - a fictionalized account of the struggles of the two children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "Why don't you console her?" asks someone about the suicidal daughter at one point. The answer: "Did it ever occur to you that she might be inconsolable...