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When I start this column with a Glovsky story, you know the pickin's are slim. Dick Glovsky was featured in an article in JewishLiving magazine, where his work with civil rights issues was outlined. Dick has long been active in the Anti-Defamation League and he now chairs its national education committee. The article listed his many accomplishments, which I have chronicled here over the years. Considering what he was like at Dartmouth, I think the kid turned out all right.

Jim Miser has been appointed chief executive officer of the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. Jim will oversee clinical research activities, patient care and medical center operations. Prior to joining City of Hope in 1995 Jim was associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington and clinical director of the division of hematology/oncology at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. He is an internationally recognized researcher who has made significant contributions to the long-term survival of children with cancer.

If you turn your browser to Terry Light's lexicological Web site, www.shadesofmeaning.com, you will find daily lessons in how not to talk like Archie Bunker.

All for now. Take care and write.

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