[Air-l] The No-Book Report: Skim It and Weep

Steve Jones sjones at uic.edu
Fri May 18 23:16:36 PDT 2001


Interesting coincidence, this story, given this obituary from last week:

CLIFF HILLEGASS, 83, founder and former president of "Cliffs Notes," 
whose study guides helped generations of students through literature 
classes; he founded "Cliffs Notes" in 1958 with a $4,000 loan and 
wrote the guides in the basement of his home; in 1999, he sold 
"Cliffs Notes" to IDG Books Worldwide for $14 million; May 5, in 
Lincoln, Neb.

Sj

At 7:05 AM +0200 5/19/01, Ken Friedman wrote:
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>                    (C) 2001 The Washington Post Company
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>     http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23370-2001May13.html
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>   Monday, May 14, 2001; Page C01
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>      The No-Book Report: Skim It and Weep
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>      More and More Americans Who Can Read Are Choosing Not To.
>      Can We Afford to Write Them Off?
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>      By Linton Weeks
>      Washington Post Staff Writer



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