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Mike Knobler, "AJC investigation: Many athletes lag far behind on SAT scores," AJC, 28 December; and Doug Lederman, "The Admissions Gap for Big-Time Athletes," IHE, 29 December, report of the gap in SAT scores between football and basketball players and other students at public universities in the United States. The gap is sometimes stunning, as for example the 433 points separating University of Texas basketball players from the average score of all the University's admits.

John Bemelmans Marciano, "A Deadly Wave, a Lucky Star," NYT, 26 December, tells a personal story of the tsunami of 28 December 1908 at Pellaro, Italy, the largest natural disaster in European history.

Before the book's publication, Gabriel Sherman, "The Greatest Love Story Ever Sold," TNR, 25 December, exposes Herman Rosenblat's Holocaust "memoir," Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, as a fraud. Oprey Winfrey promoted, film in the works, children's version – the whole nine yards. Book publication canceled; film will go ahead.

Posted on Monday, December 29, 2008 at 6:20 AM | Comments (12) | Return

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