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...ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several hits, including Cover of "Rolling Stone" and A Boy Named Sue, and nine plays, often working in conjunction with David Mamet. DIED. MEG GREENFIELD, 68, longtime editor of the Washington Post editorial page and Newsweek columnist; of cancer; in Washington (see EULOGY...
...late 1970s, when I was writing columns and editorials for the Washington Post, MEG GREENFIELD had just been appointed editorial-page editor. She was canny enough to assign me only those editorials that required no thought or knowledge; when a golfer in Maryland murdered a goose that had interfered with his game, the piece was my meat. I wrote the goose editorial on deadline, and rushing past Meg's desk, I shouted, "What should I call this?" Without looking up, she shot back, "'Honk If You Think He's Guilty...
Other than her friend and employer, Katharine Graham, she was the most powerful woman in Washington, yet she never flaunted her power or made a big deal of her womanhood. She simply took her work responsibly, with deep fair-mindedness. How she loved the news! Meg lived alone, and in a way the news was her family. Journalism offered a chance to apply something outside the news to the news. She was saved from the corrosive boredom that ruins other journalists by her knowledge of English literature. In her 50s she took up Greek...
...worst driver in North America (I'm being too limited). She had no sense of direction. Confronted about her inability to drive to an intended destination, Meg responded that she "went to places not accessible to normal people...
...Along with the junior tandem, Meg Austin, Jennifer Lee, and sophomore Alli Harper, who led the Crimson in scoring in 1998, will help show the ropes to their speedy freshman forwards...