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Would-be Hollywood Squares contestants and those who simply like to play along at home will have to rethink their gaming strategy. WHOOPI GOLDBERG, who has occupied the oft-chosen center square since the program relaunched in 1998, is vacating that most enviable piece of show-business real estate at the end of the season. Her departure comes over a salary dispute with syndicator King World Productions, since the two parties were unable to agree on terms for the next two years. According to the Washington Post, Goldberg, who also served as an executive producer, earned $10 million a year...
Extensive efforts have also been taken to deal with the audience-addressing chorus that presents Sweeney’s story. In order to clarify the viewpoint, the story now emanates from the mind of one of the central characters, the oft stepped-upon Tobias...
...EPC’s report also explicitly criticized the oft-proposed solution of raising the GPA cutoff for honors...
...unpleasant thing with a case like this is it’s very easy to come out looking like a kook,” she says. Starobin made herself most vulnerable with her arguments against King’s literary talent, as judged by her oft-referenced Ivy League educated perspective. Hurd is particularly snarky when he remarks on this point. “[Starobin] also states that “BLOOD ETERNAL” , ‘which is the product of an Ivy League education, is not the work of an untutored hack...
...life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of five cups of coffee and an educated guess. A surgical resident himself, Gawande turns every case--from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria--into a thriller in miniature, with the author in the role of the oft-stymied but always sympathetic sleuth. Diagnosis: riveting...