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The
Headline: Hometown touch for orchestra debut of Levinson work
Page: E04
By Peter Dobrin, Inquirer
Music Critic
BODY:
For a guy who calls himself "not a very forward person," composer Gerald Levinson can certainly point to a couple of big professional catches as a result of approaching total strangers.
The
first was in 1972, when he started leaving phone messages at the hotel of
Olivier Messiaen, who was in
The
resulting 121/2-minute piece, Avatar, is the product of both of Levinson's
"not very forward" personal insinuations: He ended up studying
with the mystical Messiaen for two years at the Paris Conservatory, and he got
the honor of a commission for Eschenbach, who
has made Messiaen the focus of his first season
here. Levinson, 52, a
The New York Times
HEADLINE: Study of Elite Colleges Finds Athletes
Are Isolated From Classmates
SECTION: Section A; Page 12; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 1029 words
BYLINE: By KAREN W. ARENSON
BODY:
Even at the nation's elite colleges and universities, athletes have become so narrowly focused on sports that they are far removed from their classmates academically, socially and culturally, according to a study of intercollegiate athletics in the Ivy League and at 25 other highly selective colleges.
Such institutions do not have the same kind of problems with low graduation rates for student athletes that less selective schools have. But the study found that the recruited athletes were admitted with significantly lower grades and College Board scores and then performed more poorly than would be expected for students with those grades and test scores.
Some colleges have acted individually. Three years ago, Swarthmore, which was in the study, eliminated varsity football. Last week, Vanderbilt, which was not in the study, announced that it was reorganizing its athletic programs to try to integrate them more into academic and student life.
United Press International
HEADLINE: Watercooler
Stories
LENGTH: 440 words
BYLINE: By ALEX CUKAN
BODY:
'NOT LOSING SENSE OF MORALITY'
Despite
a report that says there's a jump in profanity on television, a
Professor
of Linguistics Donna Jo Napoli says, "We're
as judgmental and moralistic as ever. We just change what we see as bad."
Some words that used to be "bad" are now just "naughty"
or only slightly colorful, according to
"Obscenities are no problem," she says. "We're still shocked by lots of things. We've just changed what we're shocked by. A racial slur, for example, knocks us flat."
AScribe Newswire
HEADLINE: Study on Foul Language on Television
Raises False Alarm, Says
LENGTH: 256 words
BODY:
SWARTHMORE, Pa., Sept. 24 [AScribe Newswire] -- People need not worry that an increase in foul language on primetime television signals a decline in morals, says a Swarthmore College expert on language use, including slang. "I don't think we're losing any sense of morality," says Professor of Linguistics Donna Jo Napoli. "We're as judgmental and moralistic as ever. We just change what we see as bad."
The Parents Television Council recently reported that it studied all primetime entertainment series from a two-week period in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and found a jump in profanity on virtually every network and time slot. The group called on the television industry to reduce the vulgarity.
AScribe Newswire
HEADLINE: On
LENGTH: 563 words
BODY:
SWARTHMORE,
According
to Nackenoff, the
The New York Times
HEADLINE: Labor Leaders Arrested At Rally
for Yale Strikers
SECTION: Section 1; Page 38; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk
LENGTH: 716 words
BYLINE: By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
DATELINE: NEW HAVEN, Sept. 13
BODY:
The
A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president and 120 other union leaders and members were arrested
today for civil disobedience as an estimated 5,000 people rallied to support
workers on strike at
Union
officials said that Unite bused in 1,000 union members from
Library Journal
HEADLINE: What's Happening in Academic Libraries
SECTION: News; Pg. 22
LENGTH: 261 words
BYLINE: Staff
BODY:
The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to six academic
libraries to address librarian recruitment and diversity issues at the undergraduate
level. The resulting program is aimed at familiarizing undergraduate students
with the library profession and to steer them to librarianship as a career.
Participants include the libraries of the
The New York Times
HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths - WALTERS, RAYMOND,
JR.
SECTION: Section 1; Page 42; Column 1; Classified
LENGTH: 174 words
BODY:
WALTERS
-- Raymond, Jr., age 91, passed away on
World News Connection
HEADLINE: PRC: RENMIN WANG ARTICLE DISCUSSES
IMPACT OF
LENGTH: 4205 words
BYLINE: Article appearing on Renmin Wang home page by Liu Xiaobiao: "Second
Anniversary of the '11 September' Incident: Rise and Fall of the 'American Empire'"
BODY:
It
has been exactly two years since the "11 September" incident took
place. Over the past two years, it has become increasingly clear to many
people that the "11 September" incident not only changed the
James
Kurth, senior researcher of the US Foreign Policy Research
Institute and professor of political science at the
The
HEADLINE: from the Locker Room; NCAA can't
halt ACC raid
SECTION: Vol. 119; No. 62; Pg. 1C
LENGTH: 712 words
BYLINE: Chevalier, Jack
BODY:
The
NCAA will not allow its athletes to have a salary, pocket money, telephone
credit cards, part-time jobs, commercial endorsements or free trips for
family funerals. Not long ago,
That spirit may still blaze at Swarthmore and Widener, where tuition grants are based on financial need, but it's flickering out fast in Division I.
Headline: Art Picks - Project Bandaloop
Sept. 18-24
BODY:
Aerial dance has been growing in popularity thanks to troupes such
as Cirque du Soleil
and other similar outfits. But there are degrees of aerial dance, and no
one takes it to the limit like Project Bandaloop.
The Oakland, Calif.-based troupe has performed atop water towers, across
skyscrapers, at
One of Project Bandaloop's more celebrated
endeavors -- a 20-day hike across the
The program comes to
The
Headline: On the Side | A market auditions in Rittenhouse
By Rick Nichols, Inquirer Columnist
BODY:
The successive waves of dog-walkers, benchwarmers (dethroned restaurateur Neil Stein among them), and take-out coffee addicts who waft through Rittenhouse Square on Saturday mornings encountered a new vista last week along the park's Walnut Street sidewalk. Five trim, pavilion-style tents had gone up, sheltering the first trial run of a farmers' market that - if it gets the required permits and licenses, neighborhood backing and political blessing - could become a weekly summer/fall fixture.
Not much of the supremely casual, shabby-chic sensibility, either, that you might find at the weekly Clark Park market in West Philadelphia, one of 10 that now dot the city.
Cell phones and sunglasses were more in evidence here, and musicians lugging padded cases shaped by the bass fiddles inside, not to mention outfits and hair that clearly (even on a lazy Saturday morning) had been carefully put together.
Even
Hansjakob Werlen, the down-home
The
Headline: Report aims for younger work force; Says more jobs needed to
stop brain-drain
By MICHAEL HINKELMAN
BODY:
If
The
report also recommended local leaders continue to focus on the Knowledge
Industry Partnership's "One Big Campus" initiative, which aims
to keep students in Philly after graduation. It suggested a "special
emphasis" on colleges like the
The
Headline: A turn for the better - Age and health can hinder a person's
ability to drive
By Susan FitzGerald, Inquirer Staff Writer
BODY:
Pat Trinder
was nervous as she waited to take her driver's test. Though she had been driving since she was 16,
Trinder, 59, was about to be tested on something
new. She had given up driving over the summer when cancerous tumors invaded
her spine, causing numbness in her lower body and making it difficult to
walk or control leg movements. She decided to learn to drive again, using
hand controls.
"I
just love to drive; I always have... I enjoy being out on the road,"
said Trinder, of Media, a career counselor at
So,
as she pursued cancer treatment, she also signed up for lessons at
The
Headline: People | Taking one last glance at some memorable people
Page: B01
By Michael Vitez, Inquirer
Columnist
BODY:
This is my last "People" column. I say this with some sadness, but also with a sense of excitement and renewal. I'll stay at The Inquirer and continue to write stories, but I know in my heart that the time has come to bid farewell to "People." Before I go, I thought I'd update you on some of the people I've written about.
Back
in June, at Central's graduation, the principal conferred an honorary diploma
on
Even better, James, who scored 1520 on his
SATs, has started college at Swarthmore.
He's living in a customized dorm room on a typical hall with 18 other students.
The Star-Ledger
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Headline: Where the boys aren't
- The predominant faces on most college campuses are female
By PEGGY O'CROWLEY, STAR-LEDGER STAFF
BODY:
Rosanna Compitiello took a drag on her cigarette and watched as returning students streamed in and out of the Student Center at Montclair State University. "There are no boys anywhere," the 19-year-old sophomore complained. "It's not good," agreed her friend Vivi Kalogeras, also 19. "If I'd known, maybe I wouldn't have come here."
What Kalogeras may not know is that she probably wouldn't be able to do much better anywhere else. With women now accounting for 64 percent of its undergraduate and graduate students, Montclair State merely reflects the national trend. Women have spent the last few decades grabbing with gusto the educational opportunities newly opened to them. Meanwhile, men have not kept pace.
While
most students at Drew said they aren't bothered by it, there definitely
is an awareness. "I know a lot of people who say, "This is the place where you find your bridesmaids, but not
your groom.' I don't necessarily agree with that, but I think there's some
fear," said Stephanie McConnell, 19, of Lancaster, Pa., a sophomore
English major. "And it's not as drastic here as some schools I applied
to, like Sarah Lawrence and Swarthmore."
Editors Note: Contrary to the implication
in the above quotation, Swarthmores enrollment is 48 percent male.
ALUMNI
The
HEADLINE: A scholar goes home to change the
world
SECTION: ROP ZONE; News; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 2308 words
BYLINE: Brier Dudley; Seattle Times technology reporter
BODY:
As
they chatted on the back porch of her home in
That
prediction proved small. Two decades after Awuah
sought help tapping into the standard American dream, he is going home to
pursue one of his own making: Awuah, who studied
engineering at
Awuah,
38, has been designing Ashesi University, a private
liberal-arts school, for years from his modest bungalow in Seattle's Green
Lake neighborhood. He's leaned on Microsoft colleagues and Ghanaian immigrants
to donate money and time. He won government approval and, a year ago, started
classes in the capital city of Accra. This year the 22 founding sophomores
were joined by 41 new freshmen. And that is just a beginning. Like a latter-day
Andrew Carnegie, Awuah wants to replicate his
project across the continent, creating a network of world-class liberal-arts
schools to educate
The Associated Press
HEADLINE: Former Microsoft worker dreams of
an African Ivy League
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 508 words
DATELINE:
BODY:
When daunted by the challenge of trying to create a sub-Saharan Ivy League from scratch, Patrick Awuah remembers that Harvard University started out with just nine students. His Ashesi University in Ghana has 63, and it's only in its second year.
Awuah, 38, has spent years planning to open the university from his home in Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood. He leaned on former Microsoft colleagues and other Ghanaian immigrants for donations. And now he's returning to his native country with his family to run the school full time. He hopes it will be the seed of an African Ivy League.
Awuah
came to the
The Columbian
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Headline: Ex-Microsoft worker pursues Ghana dream
21 September 2003
BODY:
SEATTLE (AP) -- When daunted by the challenge of trying to create a sub-Saharan Ivy League from scratch, Patrick Awuah remembers that Harvard University started out with just nine students. His Ashesi University in Ghana has 63, and it's only in its second year.
Awuah, 38, has spent years planning to open the university from his home in Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood. He leaned on former Microsoft colleagues and other Ghanaian immigrants for donations. And now he's returning to his native country with his family to run the school full time.
Awuah came to the United States in the 1980s when Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania offered him a scholarship.
Headline: Less
words, more story.
Sept. 24-30
by Jenn Carbin
BODY:
In super-partisan times, the willingness
to challenge and annoy the likes of both liberal-bashing Treason author Ann Coulter and her political
opposite, conservative-baiting filmmaker Michael Moore, is not just commendable.
It is arguably necessary for healthy political discourse in this country.
Just ask the three 20-something
editors of the nonpartisan www.spinsanity.com website. Today, their columns are receiving attention --
often positive -- from across the country.
Ben Fritz and Brendan
Nyhan are graduates of Swarthmore
College, where they met (neither is from Pennsylvania). Along with co-editor
Bryan Keefer, they produce weekly columns addressing current political spin,
lies and distortions. But unlike many media watchdogs and journalists, they
say they don't worry about tipping the scales in favor of either Republicans
or Democrats on any given day. "The
press doesn't do this seriously," says Nyhan,
who sees "a huge need" for the site. "There's this reticence
about saying, 'This side's wrong on an issue.'"
...
On the site Fritz and Nyhan admit in "full
disclosure" mode to stints as co-presidents of the College Democrats
at Swarthmore in the late '90s.
Daily Local
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Headline:
August 28, 2003
Section: PEOPLE
By: Tracy Behringer
BODY:
Having just earned an honors degree
in linguistics from Swarthmore
College, Cochranville resident Lindsey Newbold
understands the technical aspects of words like social consciousness, political
activism and civil justice.
But as a Quaker and an activist
herself, Newbold also embraces the ideals behind
these words. At 23, she has already devoted herself to many social causes,
and now that she has won a Fulbright Fellowship for 2003, she will have
some time to use her degree to help the people in
Daily Local
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Section: Editorial
BODY:
Lindsey Newbold
of
"When a language is dying,
oral literature is the first go," the 23-year-old Swarthmore College graduate said in a recent interview. "This
project is trying to do two things. The first is to create a record of the
language and the second is to generate interest, especially with young people,
to preserve the language."
We present Roses to Newbold for her work.
CBS Marketwatch.com
Headline: Dr. J.C. Huang Joins Andrew Corporation
as Chief Technology and Strategy Officer
BODY:
ORLAND PARK, Ill., Sep 24, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- J.C. Huang, Ph.D. has joined Andrew Corporation in the new role of Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. In this position, Dr. Huang will provide overall technology leadership for the company and oversee the development of corporate strategy.
...
Dr. Huang holds a B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School.
CBS
Marketwatch.com
Headline: Statement
Issued by Close Brothers: Harvard Professor Sam Hayes Critical of P&G
Treatment of Wella Minority Shareholders
9/19/2003 1:22:50 PM
BODY:
LONDON, Sep 19, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Professor Samuel Hayes, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Emeritus at Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass., is critical of Procter & Gamble's ("P&G") two-tiered offer to Wella AG shareholders and P&G's subsequent conduct as Wella's majority shareholder, in a letter publicly released today.
...
Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received a B.A. in Political Science at Swarthmore College in 1957 and an MBA (with Distinction) and DBA from Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1966, respectively. Professor Hayes currently serves on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College, and the Board of Trustees of the New England Conservatory of Music, as well as on the Boards of the Eaton-Vance mutual funds, Tiffany & Company and Telect, Inc.
PR Newswire European
HEADLINE: Statement issued by Close Brothers:
Harvard Professor Sam Hayes critical of P&G treatment of Wella
minority shareholders
LENGTH: 2211 words
BODY:
Professor Samuel Hayes, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Emeritus at Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass. is critical of Procter & Gamble's ["P&G"] two-tiered offer to Wella AG ["Wella"] shareholders and P&G's subsequent conduct as Wella's majority shareholder, in a letter publicly released today.
As he presented his study on treatment of voting and non-voting shareholders in mergers to Close Brothers Corporate Finance Limited ["Close Brothers"], who are advising an informal committee of Wella preference shareholders ["Wella Shareholder Committee"], Mr. Hayes wrote: "P&G's approach to pricing the Wella Preference shares violates the spirit of fair dealing and is inconsistent with the 'best practice' standards expected of responsible enterprises undertaking mergers or acquisitions in the US context."
About Samuel L. Hayes,
Samuel
L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking, Emeritus
at the Harvard Business School. He has taught at the School since 1971,
prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University
Graduate School of Business.
He
received a B.A. in Political Science at
The
HEADLINE: CALENDAR
SECTION: CALENDAR; Pg. 18
LENGTH: 2340 words
BODY:
DANCE
ANCIENT MERMAIDS Choreographer and composer Lacy James, who studied comparative religions at Swarthmore, presents the Mereminne Dancers in "Spirit and Nature." The 16-member group, which she founded in 2000, includes dancers from Ailey II and the Martha Graham Ensemble. On the program: "Animal Songs," a suite of five vignettes; "In the Mirror of the Moon," a women's trio in which the dancers evoke the life cycle; "Peace Prayer," which uses movement inspired by symbols of world religions; "Melting the Maze," composed by Donald Crockett, and "Sea Changes," set to classical new-age piano music by John Schmidt and a sound-scape by Ms. James.
(
HEADLINE: Nothing elitist about San Francisco
Symphony -- or its president
SECTION: BAY AREA LIVING
LENGTH: 930 words
BODY:
IMAGINE a crowd of more than 8,000 people from every walk of life packed together in San Francisco's Mission District. Is this a street fair? A rock concert? A political rally? No, it's last month's free San Francisco Symphony concert at Dolores Park.
"It was like one giant picnic," San Francisco Symphony President John David Goldman says. "It made a strong statement about how much a symphony can mean to a community."
"I'm concerned that the symphonic world is viewed as elitist -- as something that serves a small part of our society that is not mainstream. That's what we have to change. The Symphony should never seem to be the purview of the privileged." With heartfelt zeal, Goldman continues: "Music has a spirituality; it gives us empowerment, sensitivity. In many ways, it's the soul of who we are."
Not only is the Goldman scion head of the symphony board, he is currently Chairman of Willis Bay Area, Inc., president of the Jewish Community Federation, board member of Swarthmore College [his alma mater] and the Insurance Industry Charitable Fund, a trustee of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the Goldman Environmental Foundation, member of the advisory boards of the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Trust for Public Land, Project Open Hand, a devoted husband to Marcia Goldman and a father to astrobiologist Aaron and artist/photographer Jessica.
The New York Times
HEADLINE: WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS - Elizabeth
Salzer, Joanna Shulman
SECTION: Section 9; Page 20; Column 4; Society Desk
LENGTH: 212 words
BODY:
Elizabeth Anne Joan Salzer and Dr. Joanna Margaret Ferber Shulman declared their commitment yesterday at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York. The Rev. Canon Storm Swain, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony in the Chapel of St. Martin of Tours.
Dr.
Shulman, 62, is an obstetrician and gynecologist on the staff
of Mount Sinai Medical Center and an assistant professor at the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine. Dr. Shulman is a graduate
of Swarthmore and received a
master's degree in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and a medical degree from
The New York Times
HEADLINE: WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS - Anne Frankenfield,
Andrew Lund
SECTION: Section 9; Page 21; Column 1; Society Desk
LENGTH: 140 words
BODY:
Anne Elizabeth Frankenfield, a daughter of Jayne and Neil Frankenfield of Long Branch, N.J., was married on Friday to Andrew Christian Wilhelm Lund, a son of Julia and Samuel Lund of Marlton, N.J. The Rev. Betty L. Megill performed the ceremony at the Asbury United Methodist Church in Long Branch.
The
bride, 26, and the bridegroom, 25, graduated from
The bride is studying for a master's degree in developmental psychology at the University of Massachusetts. The bridegroom received a law degree from New York University and was until last month a law clerk for Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in Jackson, Miss. Tomorrow he is to begin working as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York law firm.
Associated Press
HEADLINE: Small publishers to lose street-corner
space under Philly law
SECTION: Business News; State and Regional
LENGTH: 616 words
BYLINE: By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA
BODY:
Location
doesn't just count in real estate. From billboards to supermarket shelves,
marketers frequently jockey for prime space to display their products. In
"That's a far inferior location for any paper. The foot traffic is a lot lower. People aren't really stopping and pausing," said Mattathias Schwartz, 24, who last year started The Philadelphia Independent, a quirky, monthly broadsheet whose design conveys an 18th-century feel.
Schwartz,
a
The
Headline: Banned in Philly - honor boxes for feisty new paper
4STAR
Page 08
By JIM NOLAN
BODY:
It was great street theater, the kind seen too infrequently in Philadelphia. On a crisp autumnal day during lunch hour in Rittenhouse Square, Allen Crawford, a young writer calling himself "Lord Whimsy," climbed atop a newspaper honor box to deliver an eloquent eulogy - to the honor box. He quoted Longfellow. He praised the yellow and black steel contraption for its "ironclad constitution." He lauded it and its kind as "the thinking man's Pez dispenser."
Clearly, this wasn't just any honor box. It was a newsbox belonging to the Philadelphia Independent - an articulate, fledgling, alternative monthly broadsheet whose modest street-corner distribution is now threatened by a new city ordinance scheduled to take effect on Tuesday. The law, part of an anti-blight initiative to clean up cluttered Center City corners, will force the Independent to remove newsboxes from six well-trafficked locations where it shares space with several daily and weekly papers.
"Six street corners in Center City isn't a whole lot of space," said publisher Mattathias Schwartz, who started the Independent 20 months ago with two friends after graduating from Swarthmore College in 2001 as a philosophy major. "The best spots to distribute papers in the city shouldn't only be reserved for the biggest papers," he said. "The smaller papers deserve a chance to put their views before the public and make a go of it."
The
Headline:
11 September 2003
Page: 8
BODY:
Jager Di Paola Kemp Design, a
Business Wire
HEADLINE: Dr. J.C. Huang Joins Andrew Corporation
as Chief Technology and Strategy Officer
DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
LENGTH: 437 words
DATELINE:
BODY:
J.C. Huang, Ph.D. has joined Andrew Corporation (NASDAQ:ANDW) in the new role of Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. In this position, Dr. Huang will provide overall technology leadership for the company and oversee the development of corporate strategy.
Dr. Huang has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless industry, having worked as technologist, management consultant, and venture capitalist. Most recently, he was a Managing Director and General Partner of Ericsson Venture Partners. Prior to that, he was director of wireless ventures at Lucent's New Ventures Group. In these positions, he helped create several wireless industry start-up companies. From 1996 to 1998, he was a management consultant with McKinsey providing strategic advisory services to wireless companies.
Dr.
Huang holds a B.A. in Physics from
The Associated Press
HEADLINE: Biographies of the 11 federal judges
rehearing the Calif. Recall election case
SECTION: Domestic News
LENGTH: 397 words
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
BODY:
Brief biographies of the 11 judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who will hear arguments in the case that postponed the California gubernatorial recall election.
Appointed by Democrats:
NAME: Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder.
AGE: 62
9TH CIRCUIT APPOINTMENT: President Carter, 1979.
EDUCATION:
B.A.
Broadcasting and Cable
HEADLINE: He Laughed Himself Into
A New Career
SECTION: People; Fifth Estater; Pg. 24
LENGTH: 760 words
BYLINE: By John M. Higgins
BODY:
It was a bad idea for Home Box Office, one of the network's rare flops but it was Art Bell's best lesson in television. And it helped spawn Comedy Central.
Now second-in-command at Court TV, Bell was a junior manager at HBO when he was drafted in 1986 onto a team launching splinter channel, Festival. At the time, HBO's penetration of cable homes was stalling, with non-subscribers complaining that uncut Hollywood pictures were just too racy to bring into their home. So HBO executives decided that a family service, featuring "airline cuts" trimmed of sex and violence, would get them into new homes. What the Festival launch did was bring Bell out of his pigeonhole of economist and analyst. The process exposed him to world of programming and marketing, creating product rather than tracking it and listening to viewers elaborate detail about how television is woven into their world.
John M. Higgins
B.
Education
BA,
economics,
Daily Variety
HEADLINE: GOTHAM AWARD HONOREES: David Linde
SECTION: SPECIAL SECTION1; Pg. A4
LENGTH: 583 words
BYLINE: CHARLES LYONS
HIGHLIGHT: Focus co-chief puts global flair to work for indies from everywhere
BODY:
Donning
studious-looking glasses, David Linde for a moment
looks less like the leader of a major independent film company than the
lawyer and judge his father and grandfather had
been. Raised in
Linde credits his interest in auteur-driven films to his upbringing. His father, a German Jewish refugee --- who became a renowned constitutional scholar and later a judge --- placed the right of expression at a premium. Linde recalls living in Europe at ages 8 and 12, and years later hitchhiking around Australia and the South Pacific. "Those sorts of experiences made me incredibly comfortable with other cultures and languages," he says. "In retrospect, it just seems natural I connected so strongly to filmmakers around the world."
The Virginian-Pilot
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HEADLINE: A QUIET TENACITY
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. C1
LENGTH: 2222 words
BYLINE: Bob Molinaro THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
BODY:
For the longest time, Angela Hucles was renowned for her uncanny knack for putting the soccer ball into the back of the net. From the time she joined the Norfolk Academy varsity as a seventh-grader through her senior season at the University of Virginia, she scored from the forward position with an ease and grace that belied her steadfast approach to the sport.
Said her mother, Janis Sanchez-Hucles, "Because of her cultural experience at Norfolk Academy, she's learned to fit in and not be flashy. She never wanted to do things that would offend the other players. She doesn't try to attract attention, and in some cases, that's hurt her."
Athletic
aptitude runs through the Hucles lineage. Michael's
father was an all-conference football player at Virginia Union. His grandfather,
a legendary Virginia Union coach, is in the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
But while Janis found time to play basketball at
HEADLINE:
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4
LENGTH: 285 words
BYLINE: Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Staff Writer
BODY:
International
trade Ambassador Robert Zoellick, a
More
than 2,000 Naperville-area business leaders, manufacturing executives and
local dignitaries have been invited. Mayor
George Pradel is expected to present Zoellick with a proclamation and Zoellick
will speak about
A
1971 graduate of
HEADLINE: SHORT STORIES PACK TRUTH IN COMFORTING
SECTION: EVERYDAY MAGAZINE; Pg. E1
LENGTH: 739 words
BYLINE: Jane Henderson Post-Dispatch Book Editor
BODY:
* Pulitzer finalist Adam Haslett says "You Are Not a Stranger Here" is an invitation to people who feel they are outside the mainstream. Adam Haslett didn't get a Yale law degree just for fun, but with the way his career is going, he's getting a lot more practice writing fiction than legal briefs.
The 32-year-old author graduated in May, just months after learning that he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize that went to Jeffrey Eugenides for "Middlesex."
Haslett
grew up in
Franzen chose "You Are Not a Stranger Here" for the "Today Show" book club last year, and the book has sold more than 100,000 copies.
Sydney Morning Herald
HEADLINE: Tell Me You Like It, Dad
SECTION: Spectrum; Pg. 3
LENGTH: 1011 words
BYLINE: Catherine Keenan
BODY:
When
Christopher Castellani's first novel came out earlier this year, his parents
didn't read it. They emigrated from
In
marketing terms, praise from the reigning star of literary
The
Headline: Nancy Neumann promoted peace
By Nicole Hamilton
BODY:
From the time she was born, Nancy Neumann knew she was living in a world where - if people acted on their beliefs - they could change it for the better. Her great-great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Butterworth, did what many other Quakers living in the South did in the early 1800s: Sold their large southern estates and moved to where slavery was prohibited.
Ms. Neumann died Sept. 12 at her Maineville farm of heart failure. She was 89.
During World War II, Ms. Neumann was a dietician with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization comparable to the Peace Corps, where she worked in civilian public service camps in various parts of the country.
She was educated at Terrace Park High School and then at Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pa.., where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in economics in 1934, at the age of 20.
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DeGeorge has three grown children but the
Less
than a decade later,
"It's
very different here than it is someplace where they have 80, 100, 120 kids,"
said DeGeorge, who has a 124-119-1 record. "They
can approach it in a different way. I'm not complaining. It's the nature
of our situation. I'm proud to be at
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