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...books in a statement released through her publisher on Monday, April 24. Viswanathan said future editions of “Opal Mehta” would be revised to remove the similarities, and she added that “any phrasing similarities between [McCafferty’s] works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious.” She made comparable statements later that week in interviews with the Times and Katie Couric on NBC’s Today Show.The apology did not mollify McCafferty’s publisher, Random House, which rejected the sophomore’s explanation that...
...number one country song, and she would be nominated for a Grammy Award. She examined lynching in “The Ballad of Sally Anne” and the slave and Confederate dead in “I’ll Cry For Yours, Will You Cry For Mine?”She’s now writing what she calls a “guide to country music in cyberspace.”‘THE WIND DONE GONE’But Randall was catapulted into the spotlight for her parody of “Gone With...
...discriminate,” Thoreson adds.“American culture has moved on,” Colantuono says. Contrasting his own experiences at Harvard with those of today’s gay undergraduates, he says, “It’s a very different experience from mine.”LEGACY OF AN ACTIVISTA Crimson article from 1981 quotes one professor as saying, “It will all blow over when Schatz graduates.”But the gay rights movement at the College continued to grow after his graduation.“I recall that there...
...Murrow praised young Bingham in a letter to his parents. “If you and your wife are not inordinately proud of your son, I shall take steps to excommunicate you,” he wrote. “While listening to your boy, I kept hoping that mine who is now 13 will turn out to be an equally consequential citizen.”Robert W. “Worth” Bingham, Bingham’s older brother, had been selected to take the reins of the newspaper, and Bingham had long looked...
...Michael Dukakis' ticket, he bridled at Dan Quayle, then 41 and a Senator from Indiana, who was defending his youth and experience by comparing himself to John F. Kennedy. "Senator," Bentsen said, seething, "I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy...