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DIED. BRUCE PALTROW, 58, influential TV producer and director responsible for such critically acclaimed shows as The White Shadow, about a white coach of a racially mixed high school basketball team, and the quirky, Emmy-winning medical series St. Elsewhere; of pneumonia, after suffering a recurrence of throat cancer; in Rome. He also directed episodes of such TV shows as Homicide, as well as movies, most recently 2000's Duets, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, his daughter with wife Blythe Danner. Paltrow was in Rome to celebrate Gwyneth's 30th birthday...
...paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to the great naturalist Bil Gilbert. I investigated the old hoo-hah espoused by such as Ignatius Donnelly, Jules V erne and Arthur Conan Doyle, and looked into the sounder theories of bygone thinkers such as Rachel Carson and J.V. Luce. I developed a Deep Throat source at the venerable Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and, frankly, I myself got in a bit too deep...
...remembered an especially chilling moment as a 16-year-old when one of his close Muslim friends suddenly wiped his hand across his neck and said, “One day I would slit the throat of all the Jews...
...bagpiper paused, and someone asked us to all observe a moment of silence. There was a lot of throat-clearing and jostling. Someone giggled. My candle blew out and someone else, sotto voce, offered to relight it. After a while the bagpiper started up again. He was wheezing “America the Beautiful” in a stumbling meter. It is a song that was played ad nauseum in the weeks after Sept. 11—a song that was substituted for “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh inning stretch...
Benjamin C. Bradlee ’43-’44, legendary executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968-1991. He is one of four people alive who know the identity of Watergate informant Deep Throat, and authored the bestselling memoir A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures. It’s the key question. The answer is no one ever knows what they don’t know. I know that I don’t know a lot. I don’t know about Saddam Hussein. I don’t know what the hell he?...