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...answering machine at Princeton refers those interested in arranging a speaking engagement to a high-powered New York booking agency. Along with Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal Jewish magazine Tikkun, he received a $100,000 advance for a joint book on black-Jewish tensions, an almost unheard-of sum for a scholarly work...
...part of the agreement, the ART receives free use of the Loeb for professional theatrical productions as well as an annual lump-sum payment earmarked for undergraduate theater production--which usually amounts to about a half-million dollars...
...real measures by which he will ultimately be judged, like deficit reduction and health-care reform -- two goals that will require the greatest skill now that the latest private White House assessment has concluded that the money needed to fix the health-care mess could reach $175 billion, a sum more than twice the initial forecast. "The stimulus fight will look like a picnic compared with health care," says a Clinton aide. "But everything's possible if we include everyone in. On the other hand, nothing's possible if we continue to turn every disagreement into some kind of Quien...
...worst dream is to be accused of plagiarism, of stealing ideas and language from someone else and parading them as original. This charge is a lightning bolt to the bole of a writer's reason for being -- the task of adding to, as opposed to filching from, the sum total of human wisdom, knowledge or expressiveness. It has the additional disadvantage of being monstrously hard to refute, even when it is false...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...