The Chronicle of Higher Education

This Just In: Tim Russert's Crimson Face, Bob Jones's Fashion Sense, Orange Coast's Baby Dummy

By ANDREW MYTELKA

It's a time-honored tradition for celebrities who are in demand as commencement speakers to use ghost writers. And when all else fails, the speakers have been known to simply deliver the same speech they gave the previous year. So it was that Tim Russert, the NBC newsman...

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