Word: weeks
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...when he died last week, at 78, it was apparent that of all the pioneers of TV's first generation, Allen remains the most relevant, one of the half-dozen indispensable people in the medium's history. When he became host of a new late-night broadcast on NBC called the Tonight show in 1953, he was a revolutionary. The infant medium was still feeling its way, adapting the formats of radio and vaudeville and the Broadway stage. Allen, who had honed his skills in local radio and TV, seemed to understand the medium in a new way. He relaxed...
...annual Harvard rite of passage where seniors dig a bit deeper into their weary wallets to leave a gift to the University began last week, as the chairs of the Senior Gift Committee for the Class of 2001 were announced...
...running with funds given under the state's Clean Elections Act. Passed by voters four years ago, it offers full public financing to state office seekers who eschew the smarmy scramble for campaign funds. Several states have similar laws; Missouri and Oregon voters cast ballots on such measures this week. But with this election, Maine is the first to test fully the bold scheme...
...power, even in her 20s, and she could phone the President because - paging Dr. Freud - she was beautiful. And she knew how to work her beauty as well as her stopwatch. Just listen to one of the letters to her parents about the events lined up for the week ahead. "Monday I will be with Senator Scoop Jackson for dinner. Tuesday Senator Keating has invited me to a party for the Vice President (Nixon). Friday I'm going out with a New York Times columnist. I sure am getting fancy." Her journal at age 12 foretells how she would later...
...Connolly - a well-known gadfly who gave interviews last week wearing a fishing cap and seated in front of a human skeleton he keeps in his office - says he learned about Bush's DUI through a round of old-fashioned small-town gossip. According to Connolly, an elderly man seeing his chiropractor had mentioned that he was in a courtroom on a DUI charge 24 years ago, and that Bush had been there too. The chiropractor, realizing the significance of that news, called a Democratic public official in Portland. And that official - whom Connolly won't name - told Connolly...