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...radiating ropes bobbed five smaller vessels, the 35-foot whaleboats that, on better days, the whaleship dispatched to harpoon the bowhead whales that brought white men to these remote climes. And, completing the scene, forming its outer perimeter, nine other whaling vessels swung at anchor in the eerily calm waters of this 37°F cloudless Arctic morning. A day earlier, the winds that often slice through this storied, icy gut dividing North America and Asia had roiled those waters; swells had blown the Brunswick-the now-listing ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts-against one of the ice floes. During...
...GOLD WATCH? Surely CBS didn't expect Gunga Dan to sit in his office playing online poker. When DAN RATHER stepped down as anchor of the CBS Evening News last year after apologizing for flawed reporting in a story about President Bush's National Guard service, the longtime journalist hoped to snare some meaty assignments on 60 Minutes. But "after a protracted struggle," Rather said, CBS execs "had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work," and network and newsman parted months before the end of Rather's contract, in November. CBS tried to make...
Will you stay where you are? I love what I'm doing. CNN is a cool place to work because I'm able to anchor and still do a lot of field reporting. But I've never hung anything on the walls in the offices I've had because nothing seems to last very long in TV. Who knows what will happen down the road...
Lehrer is the current anchor of the long-running “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on the PBS network, a role that is underscored by nearly half a century of hard-hitting political reporting...
Last June, class marshal Caleb I. Franklin ’05 told The Crimson that the Harvard administration advised the Senior Class Committee to avoid selecting speakers who might offend older Class Day attendees. Some speculated that the choice of NBC news anchor Tim Russert for last year’s Class Day speaker may have been a reaction to the choice of Cohen the year before. Every Class Day speaker beginning in 2002 had been a comedian before Russert was selected...