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Pauley's departure is the latest in a series of jolts to NBC's once happy morning family. The turmoil began early this year with the leaking of an internal memo in which Gumbel bluntly criticized several of his Today colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Egos were still being massaged when the show went through a behind-the-scenes shake-up: NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol was given new responsibilities as the executive in charge of Today, an unusual and controversial appointment for someone outside the News division. Then came Norville's unseating of veteran John Palmer as anchor...
...Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never heard of Woody's films, and one of them, trombonist Jim Robinson, called him Willard.) He hopes one day to devote a whole film to "the birth of jazz...
...student, was murdered. Her estranged boyfriend went up to her bedroom one night and with a hammer cracked her head open "like a watermelon," as he put it. Murders are a dime a dozen in America. But the real story here, the real horror, chronicled in painful detail by Willard Gaylin (in The Killing of Bonnie Garland), was the aftermath: sympathy turned immediately from victim to murderer, a Mexican American recruited to Yale from the Los Angeles barrio. Within five weeks he was free on bail, living with the Christian Brothers and attending a local college under an assumed name...
...drink and have higher medical costs, you don't pay higher insurance premiums," said Willard G. Manning, a professor of public health and economics at the University of Michigan who also worked on the study...
...should bear the burden of the common good? As often as not, neighborhoods are rising up to resist responsibility, and in some cases are turning to violence. "Too often we assume that the human being can achieve a good life without attending to the collective good," says Dr. Willard Gaylin, head of the Hastings Center for ethics in Briarcliff...