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...Warren Professor of History of Religion in America William R. Hutchinson says his colleague's teaching style is "forceful, but unusually responsive to the needs and views of students he's teaching." Graham is "somewhat Socratic--he draws out responses from students with different types of questions," Hutchinson says...
...feel areas in which the Times can do better and must be competitive with the local papers," says the Times's Sunday magazine editor, Warren Hoge. But, he adds, the goal "is not to be like them." In a city where tabloids run front-page headlines like TEDDY'S SEXY ROMP! the Gray Lady will surely never be ranked as the gamiest daily in town. Meanwhile the new breeze blowing through the Times is raising some storms along its path...
...could ever blackmail Madonna. Indiscretions other stars would pay to suppress she is happy to exploit. A stormy marriage to Sean Penn, a brisk fling with Warren Beatty, the teasing hint of a tryst with Sandra Bernhard, MTV's banning of the gender-blender Justify My Love video: no problem. Every fresh outrage is a soaring career move. Last week Madonna made the front page of the New York Daily News by giving a chatty-sassy interview to the gay biweekly The Advocate. She gets tabloid treatment -- just as much as she wants -- in slick magazines. New York, People, Vanity...
...when Warren McCleskey, a black death-row inmate in Georgia, petitioned the Supreme Court in 1987, arguing that his capital sentence should be overturned because the race of his white victim played a significant role in his sentencing, his claim was rejected. Presented with data demonstrating that murderers of whites are four times as likely to receive the death penalty as murderers of blacks, the court allowed that the link between a victim's race and the imposition of the death penalty was "statistically significant in the system as a whole." But, the court concluded, no petitioner could rely exclusively...
...hottest read in town? Then snap up a copy of . . . the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual report. While the title suggests a pastiche of dry statistics and commercial puffery, connoisseurs of corporate entertainment eagerly await each year's version -- particularly the plain- spoken chairman's letter, written by superinvestor Warren Buffett. In the Omaha-based holding company's 1990 edition, released last month, the author quotes such thinkers as Woody Allen, Bertrand Russell and Buffett's four-year- old granddaughter Emily, while characteristically mocking his own financial acumen...