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...matter of skill. Within two years of making van runs to pick up players from the airport while getting paid almost nothing as an intern, he was named Advance Scout for the 1997 and 1998 seasons. He wrote scouting reports for each regular and postseason series, performed the background work for various roster moves, and oversaw the Indians' professional scouting system...
Short of homicide, how far will a man go to escape his background and reinvent himself as an unaffiliated member of the human race? If you are Coleman Silk, the gifted self-liberator in Philip Roth's new novel, The Human Stain (Houghton Mifflin; 368 pages; $26), you first tell your fiance that your widowed mother is dead when she is not. Then you tell your mother that she will never be allowed to see her future grandchildren...
Dyke seems just the man to knock a new sensibility into the sprawling bureaucracy. He comes from a commercial TV background--he was chairman and chief executive of Pearson Television from 1995 to 1999 after leaving London Weekend Television, where he was group chief executive from 1990 to 1994--and is, according to Jonathan Davis, media expert at the London Economics consultancy, "the hardest-nosed businessman in the British-TV industry." Dyke prefers to stress his high aspirations for the Beeb, telling his staff last month, "Our aim is to be a place where people work collaboratively, enjoy their...
...Skytypers," a mesmerizing loop about a minute long, the camera follows five planes flying parallel against a background of varying shades of blue sky. Although the planes are speeding through the air, the scene is essentially motionless, except for the shifting background of clouds and the slowly fading smoke trailing the planes. The film is so smoothly put together that the repetition can barely be noticed and the progression seems to continue forever...
...very young age, girls are taught that certain things are for them and certain things [like science and math] are not for them," she says as Teagan cries in the background...