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Quincy Jones  in New York on Jan. 26  2018. (Photo: Brian Ach  Getty Images)
 Quincy Jones   the music maestro whose recent interviews have sparked furious rows among friends and admirers  apologized on Twitter Thursday for "silly" things he has said.
In a tweet   Jones  said  his  six daughters took  him  aside for a "family intervention" after two recent interviews led to public discussion of  for example  whether  his  late pals  comedian Richard Pryor and actor Marlon Brando  slept together.
Jones blamed age   his  giving up drinking three years ago and memory problems for  his  garrulous interviews in Vulture and GQ recently. Among other topics in the profanity-pocked Q&As   he  said  he  didn't care for Taylor Swift's music  once dated Ivanka Trump and once thought the Beatles were bad musicians.
"Even at 85  it's apparent that 'wordvomit' and bad-mouthing is inexcusable "  he  continued.  He  said  his  "bad-mouthing" contradicted messages  he  wanted to convey  about racism  inequality  homophobia and poverty.  He  said  he  had already reached out to  his  friends to apologize privately.
"But when you live a public life you have a responsibility to be an example & since I do live a public life I wanted to make a public apology "  he  wrote.
"I am sorry to anyone to whom my words offended & I'm especially sorry to my friends who are still here with me & to those who aren't "  he  wrote.  He  thanks  his  friends and family for their "grace."
"Thank you for calling me out when I've clearly made a mistake...many mistakes "  he  said. "I hear ALL of you & I thank you."
 He  signed it: "Love an 85-year-old bow-legged man who is still learning from  his  mistakes."
 He  did not explicitly retract  his  claim about Pryor and Brando.
Two weeks ago  after the Vulture interview began attracting a lot of baffled attention  Pryor's daughter  Rain Pryor  furiously denied her father and Brando ever slept together and poured scorn on everyone gleefully gossiping about it  including her father's widow  Jennifer Lee Pryor  who confirmed  Jones ' claim.
In two lengthy online diatribes  Rain Pryor denounced  Jones  and  her  stepmother.
Quincy Jones

Back in 2000   Rich Cohen  went on a mission.
The magazine writer  put on the literary map two years earlier with the book "Tough Jews " flew to Chicago to chronicle the legendary losing of  his  favorite baseball team for the esteemed pages of Harper's. It was such an unlikely assignment that the Cubs' hitting coach  Hall of Fame slugger Billy Williams  was convinced there was no such magazine as Harper's;  Cohen  must have made it up to get free tickets.
 Cohen 's observations included Mark Grace's smoking habits (a cigarette at his locker before and after every game)  Joe Girardi's naked body ("old-fashioned  a body from the Great Depression: thick torso and heavy arms  social realism  a WPA poster")  and Sammy Sosa's daily boombox battles with his teammates. They liked loud Pearl Jam. He liked even louder salsa music.  Cohen  wrote: "Today  and each day  it ended with the Pearl Jam turned down and turned off. It was not hard to tell how Sosa's teammates felt about this."
The Cubs lost seven straight games while  Cohen  was on their trail  reinforcing everything  he  was there to see: misery  piled up for generations. The piece is essential reading for any Cubs fan  precisely because  Cohen  is one of us  trying to make sense of it all: "For every Cub fan  there is a season  an inning  an at bat  when all hope is lost  when  at long last  he becomes disillusioned and realizes with dread certainty that no matter how good its prospects the team will never win."
Now  at last   Cohen  gets to update the story.
But how did we get here? Why did such futility endure? What scars were wrought across generations of the fan base? These are the questions  Cohen  takes up  and  he  hints at  his  own scars as early as the dedication. It is to  his  four sons  who "will grow up with the nonsensical idea that the Chicago Cubs are a great baseball team."
To those of us who suffered long enough —  Cohen   me  probably you (any White Sox fan stumbling onto this presumably bailed paragraphs ago) — it still sometimes doesn't quite seem possible. That shared sentiment is part of the book's power.  Cohen  tells a story that is all of ours: "When I was 13  I began going to Cubs games on my own. This was my first taste of adulthood. I've associated Wrigley Field with freedom ever since."
Jessica Medoff / Farrar  Straus and Giroux Magazine writer Rich Cohen chronicles the Cubs’ journey to a World Series championship in “The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse.” Magazine writer Rich Cohen chronicles the Cubs’ journey to a World Series championship in “The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse.” (Jessica Medoff / Farrar  Straus and Giroux) (Jessica Medoff / Farrar  Straus and Giroux)
Weaving between history lesson  memoir and fairly faithful sports reporting  "The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse" is a brisk and engaging read. It's hard to say much new or novel about the Cubs — probably no team has had more words spent in a bid to understand it — but  Cohen  does  his  best and employs an advantage even beyond  his  skilled storytelling:  He  has lived a life of good fortune.
Not only has  he  been on the front lines for Harper's  Sports Illustrated  Vanity Fair  Rolling Stone and The New Yorker  but also we learn that  Cohen 's father  legendary negotiation expert Herb Cohen  was friendly with former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda (we get an amusing personal anecdote from it) and Ernie Banks (an even better personal anecdote).
Along the way   Cohen  grapples with the hiccups — '84  '89  '03  '07 and '08 — along with the question of why the Cubs could never pull it out. The answer  of course  is not a literal curse. There may be no single answer  but  Cohen  sifts through a handful of compelling options. The "schizo" ballpark  which offered no true home field advantage. Bad ownership (meaning  in part  the Tribune Company — sorry everyone!). Bad organizational culture. It's not a new insight  but it's a fascinating one: In Chapter 11  current Cubs owner Tom Ricketts says winning the World Series is a fluke. Once you're in the playoffs  he says  any team can win it: "The fact is  when you go back and look  you'll see there's little correlation between how many games you win during a season and how far you go in the postseason. Almost zero." Simply  all the Cubs needed to do all these years was build a core of talent to consistently reach the playoffs. Then a World Series would inevitably have happened. Instead  the franchise was doomed by a lack of vision.
Rich Cohen

Kassandra Lawrence  was desperate.
 Lawrence  couldnât afford the cost of a private attorney upfront. So  in an effort to find an alternative  she did an online search for âpregnancy discriminationâ and âIvanka Trumpâ â the only high-profile person she knew who was talking about family-leave issues. The search led her to a story that mentioned the NWLC.
âI just knew that what happened to me wasnât right and shouldnât happen to anyone else â  Lawrence  said. âIt certainly didnât seem right that you need to be rich  or somehow have a lot of extra money for a lawyer to even get to court.â
The problems had started when  Lawrence  delivered  her  second child.  She  had been working for the Stafford County  Va.  sheriffâs office for eight years when  she  became pregnant again. The pregnancy went smoothly  but the delivery did not.  Lawrence  lost a lot of blood during a complicated Caesarean section.
In the middle of  her  recovery  the sheriffâs department told  Lawrence   she  needed to report to work on a specific date or reapply for a job  according to  her  lawsuit.  She  had 12 weeksâ leave  no more  under the Family and Medical Leave Act  and  she  had already taken âtoo muchâ time off. All of it was essentially regarded as optional by a department official who said âwomen chose to have children â the lawsuit says.  She  should have planned things in a way that wasnât so disruptive.
 Lawrence  needed  her  job  and  she  liked it.  She  still does. So  she  went back to work in pain and with scar tissue wrapped around some of  her  organs.  Lawrence  put off surgery to remove it because  she  knew how it would be received at work.
When  she  took time off for carpel tunnel surgery on  her  weapon hand â necessary to do  her  job â department officials accused  her  of medical malingering   she  said  using leave time to be with  her  kids.
Thatâs when  she  saw it: a memo from the sheriff asking employees to donate leave time to a colleague undergoing cancer treatment. The sheriff asserted that  while the man had exhausted his 12 weeks of leave  he deserved the departmentâs help   Lawrence  said.
âI had already  at this point  had a lot of strange conversations  had a lot of things said to  me  about women being such an unfair burden on the department â  Lawrence  said. âFirst  you question yourself. You do. Then  like most people who need their jobs  you [get] angry. You get scared. But that memo  I just couldnât believe that theyâd put this attitude in a memo  clear as day.â

Kassandra Lawrence