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...respected hotel owner-operator who has already cut a $1.6 billion deal for Westin Hotels and has franchise agreements with major chains, including Hilton. It's not even clear that Starwood's structure gives him an unfair edge. Bollenbach says it does; Sternlicht says it doesn't. Ken Kies, chief of staff for the congressional Joint Taxation Committee, is concerned enough to be looking, but he says chances of a change anytime soon "are about zero...
...community, without fanfare or thanks. Being on Good Morning America isn't the solution. Jane, roll up your sleeves, keep your mouth closed and work hard. Make a donation if you like; deduct it from your income tax if you can. Don't make a federal case of it. KEN KELLER Valencia, Calif...
...achievement of Ken Burns' that his latest documentary for PBS helps rescue two heroic figures from the limbo of sixth-grade history. (Undaunted Courage, the recent bestseller by Stephen Ambrose, had already begun their rehabilitation, and Ambrose appears in the film.) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, which will be shown in two-hour segments on Nov. 4 and 5, smoothly relates the story of the first expedition to cross the West and reach the Pacific Ocean. The familiar Burns techniques are here--actors reading letters, a cast of commentators, panning shots of historical images--but they...
What is whole language? The best person to ask is Ken Goodman, a professor at the University of Arizona. Grandfatherly, with a goatee and longish white hair, Goodman is the quietly charismatic leader of the whole-language movement. "Whole language isn't something that can be summed up in two sentences," he says. "It is a belief system that grounds one's teaching. A pedagogy." Goodman and Frank Smith, a cognitive psychologist, developed the theories behind whole language in the late 1960s. Goodman asked adults and children to read aloud, then studied the ways in which what they said varied...
Goodwin explains in the book's introduction that she originally intended Wait Till Next Year to be the coming-of-age story of a Brooklyn Dodgers fan--a follow-up to her role in Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. Discovering her love for the Dodgers was inextricably entangled with her childhood as a whole, she realized that the story would have to take on a larger dimension. She set about the project, then, as any diligent historian would, collecting documents and photographing and contacting nearly everyone who lived in her neighborhood when she was a child. "My intention to write...