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...Finally, while this change is a great first step to making the guide more user-friendly, another splendid way to improve the CUE guide immediately comes to mind: indexing the courses on the basis of “Workload” and “Difficulty...
...tells people that her Ph.D from the University of Chicago stands for Packinghouse Daughter. That?s what she is - the daughter of a retired Wilson & Company millwright in a meatpacking pant in Albert Lea, Minnesota. That?s also the name of her new book, "Packinghouse Daughter" (Perennial/HarperCollins; paperback), a splendid memoir of her family?s blue-collar life in the 1950s, and the 109-day strike that divided the town...
...MONICA, ALL THE TIME: Who can forget those splendid days in 1998, when L?Affaire Lewinsky first broke? Not Marvin Kalb, the director of the Washington office of Harvard?s Shorestein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy. Kalb is still scolding about Zippergate coverage in "One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism" (Free Press; October). According to PW, "The problem, Kalb finds, is that the corporate concentration of ownership of news pushes the bottom line above all else. And with the proliferation of news outlets, especially in cable TV, reporters must titillate rather than...
...summer, David McCullough's "John Adams" has sat at the top of the best-seller lists. Joseph Ellis' "Founding Brothers" has been on the list for nine months. This fall, Edmund Morris' "Theodore Rex", the second volume of his Theodore Roosevelt biography (the first was his splendid "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"), will have a first printing of over 200,000. Doris Kearns Goodwin, having already studied the Kennedys and the Franklin Roosevelts to handsome effect, is hard at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...know all this about his radio work because, unlike the theatrical productions that vanished on closing night, nearly all of his important radio shows are preserved and available. Some of the best "Mercury" epi-sodes can be ordered from Radio Spirits; so can Welles? splendid 3-1/2hr. ver-sion of "Les Mis?rables," produced the summer before the Mercury went on the air. Many more shows - 18 of 22 "Mercury?s" and 29 of 56 episodes of its sponsored successor, "Campbell Playhouse" - can be heard with a RealPlayer attach-ment on your current entertainment furniture of choice. This...