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...TEACHER: A TRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S TEACHERS by David Marshall Marquis and Robin Sachs (Simon & Schuster; $29.95). In this chronicle of the nation's best teachers, 78 classroom veterans speak thoughtfully, sometimes passionately, of their profession's rewards and sorrows; accompanied by Sachs' evocative photographs...
LOST IN YONKERS. Neil Simon elevated himself from jokester to artist in an autobiographical trilogy during the mid-1980s. He returns to themes from his youth in his 26th Broadway-bound play, now at Washington's National Theater...
Consistent with its performances all season, Harvard was stronger in the second half of the meet. Simon Wainwright crushed the rest of the field in the 200-yard butterfly by almost a second-and-a-half. In the 500-yard freestyle, Peterson touched first and Steve Root fell less than half second short of nailing second for the Crimson after a late surge on Princeton's Derrick...
PATRIMONY by Philip Roth (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). The trick of this account of how the author cared for his dying father is that there is no trick, only a masterly demonstration of narrative control and emotional clarity that can evoke laughter and tears -- sometimes simultaneously...
...better information. But it did not stem the complaints of reporters in the field. Hampered by a pool arrangement that restricts them largely to specified trips arranged by military officials, correspondents grew restless -- and possibly reckless. Late in the week, a vehicle belonging to CBS-TV correspondent Bob Simon and three colleagues was found abandoned near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. Their whereabouts was still not known by the weekend, but they had apparently struck out on their own -- something allowed but discouraged under Pentagon rules -- to try to find out more about what was going...