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Plimpton Remembered |Parties All Over George Plimpton’s Send-Off: Lots of Indoor Fireworks It wasn’t supposed to be a memorial service when it was planned weeks ago, but last night’s gala50th anniversary dinner for The Paris Review turned out to be a rollicking, moving farewell for the magazine’s founder, George Plimpton …

And now some fresh pickings from the grapevine: Professor’s Past Problem Remember Gao Zhan, the American University sociology and human rights professor who two years ago was convicted in China of spying for the U.S. government? She was sentenced to 10 years in a Chinese prison, but after five months …

And now the most captivating two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! Explosion Explanation? A British news report says some of the explosions seen and heard in Baghdad over the past few days were not due …