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...likes a snitch, but Mark Felt, the former FBI agent who late in life revealed himself as the great mystery man known as Deep Throat, performed an act of high patriotism by helping Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the most serious set of political crimes in American history. His identity also became one of the great journalistic obsessions of the 20th century. Felt died this week at the age of 95 in Santa Rosa, California...
...Nixon's White House staff), ended in the only resignation of a President in American history. Although it was ultimately the power of the courts and of the Congress that forced Richard Nixon from office in the middle of his second term, it was the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein that first stymied the efforts of the President's men to cover up the White House involvement in the crime. (See a photo essay on the saga of Mark Felt a.k.a. Deep Throat...
...TIME attorneys were to answer a subpoena in that case, Agnew resigned his office rather than face prosecution. Felt, because of his high rank in the bureau and his dismay at the criminality in the White House, was uniquely able to provide TIME with such information. Still, Woodward and Bernstein were clearly the most distinguished of the Watergate reporters, and their early attention to the story was critical to the failure of Nixon's cover-up. Their competitors, including those of us at TIME who worried each week whether the scoops we had in hand would be stolen away...
...says. “They’d love for you to go abroad for a semester, maybe not a year.” While the social studies concentration has the highest proportion of students who go abroad, according to Director of Studies for social studies Anya Bernstein, only one person has concentrated in Social Studies after spending a full year studying off-campus. “I’ve watched people crash and burn trying to do it,” she says, referring to two students who ultimately changed concentrations after returning to campus.With the clock ticking...
...about impeaching Blagojevich. He has earned the opprobrium of preachers by snubbing a meeting with them, apparently because of their political links with another of his enemies, the Rev. James Meeks, a state senator with ambitions for the governorship. In a February 2008 article in Chicago magazine, reporter David Bernstein wrote, "Nearly everyone I spoke to agrees that Blagojevich is facing a career-threatening political crisis...