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Rivers partially attributes the success of the Harvard curriculum overhaul to a thorough training program for all doctoral candidate teaching fellows, in which they take a full-credit class on the methodology of language teaching and practice their own techniques in a classroom situation...
Another reason for the program's success, according to Rivers, is its flexibility. "I believe in giving people a chance to develop their own ideas," she says, adding that the writing requirements for language courses now focus on creativity--"things people will enjoy writing and discussing with other students...
...Bill Lord, the former executive producer of "Nightline" and now the executive producer of ABC's "World News Tonight," thinks "Nightline's" style is central to its success. "Ted doesn't want to be taken in by the guest's personality. He wants to approach it as the audience does," he says. "He wants all guests to establish their criminals with the public...
Without exception, all questioned credit Koppel with the show's success. "Ted Koppel is 'Nightline,'" says Don Hewitt, the executive producer of "60 Minutes" on CBS. "He's a very good interviewer." Dershowitz adds that Koppel "is like a good cross-examiner. He's the best interviewer I've had." Small says that Koppel always asks "tough questions with the kind of alacrity that's not afraid to risk affecting the interview...
Koppel won't discuss his own political leanings, but does offer an analysis of President Reagan's success. "Reagan has a simple way of articulating simple thoughts," he says. "And TV is a simple medium, that lends itself to simple things. Reagan hardly if ever gets too complicated...