A Lost Generation
There was no single moment when Ellis Cose realized he wanted to write his cover story on America’s prisons. “So many people I talked to in the civil-rights community and the neighborhoods ended up talking about prisons,” says Cose, who has written about race for NEWSWEEK for the past seven years. The topic, he says, “is one of this country’s most important issues.
The Widow Seuss
While reporting on the making of Dr. Seuss’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” John Horn got to know the indomitable Audrey Geisel, the keeper of her late husband’s estate. Horn reports that Geisel kept a close eye on the yuletide classic, rejecting certain jokes here, a set decoration there. “She knows more about Hollywood than some studio executives,” he says.
