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...Correspondent Lawrence Malkin's The National Debt (Henry Holt) grew out of his 25 years as an economics journalist. Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott expanded on his coverage of the past two superpower summits to co-write, with Michael Mandelbaum of the Council on Foreign Relations, Reagan and Gorbachev (Random House...
Naipaul catches two fleeting glimpses of his landlord, but makes no attempt to meet him. The tenant is content with accidental information, the secondhand knowledge that he lives in the immediate vicinity and under the aegis of a bizarre depressive. The owner, rendered "more mysterious" by random images, takes his place in the writer's imaginative life, an intriguing possibility: "We were -- or had started -- at opposite ends of wealth, privilege, and in the hearts of different cultures...
...Waters' case, however, this seemingly random stroke of misfortune soon began to look like a clue to a medical mystery. Shortly after his diagnosis, Waters learned that his former teammate Matt Hazeltine, a linebacker, had also been stricken with ALS. Last December Waters heard of a third ALS casualty from the 1964 squad -- Fullback Gary Lewis. Both Hazeltine and Lewis died earlier this winter. Waters was stunned. Was it mere coincidence? The disease typically strikes 1 in 50,000 Americans a year, yet it hit three teammates on a 55-man squad. Waters' doctor, Stanley Appel, head of neurology...
...from the U.S.S.R. (the Today show's Bryant Gumbel, for example, spent a week there in 1984), he and his crew were given the most unfettered access to average Soviet citizens since Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, took hold. Studio audiences were chosen at random by Donahue staffers (accompanied by a Soviet escort) from grocery stores, movie houses, skating ponds and other locations around Moscow, and no restrictions were placed on the questions asked. Donahue also became the first Western journalist to visit Chernobyl since the nuclear accident there last spring. His crew got footage...
...Random House can now appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court or try to issue the book in a more watered-down form. Salinger naturally had no comment on the court's decision. Holden Caulfield had already spoken for him, after all. In the opening lines of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger's captious hero warns the reader, "I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography." And not going to let anyone else tell it either...