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Once hired, minority journalists say, they are caught in an affirmative-action double bind: the same preference that helps them get in also leads white colleagues to doubt their competence. Minority reporters complain that for them there is often no middle ground: if they are not extraordinary, they are considered inferior. Editor James Squires of the Chicago Tribune seemed to validate that charge. Said he: "We get two kinds of minority reporters: superstars capable of doing any kind of story, and those who are there only because they are minorities...
...adopt a neutral stance during the Falklands war. Haughey, for his part, is angry that he was not consulted about Prior's plan and agrees with S.D.L.P. Leader John Hume that the assembly is "unworkable." After last week's elections, an idea that had meant to bind the wounds of a bloodied land instead seemed more likely to inflict fresh pain...
This, as Kissinger suggests, may be as risky as overgenerosity. The banks thus have no easy way out of their bad-loan bind. They can only hope that a robust economic recovery, both in the U.S. and abroad, will revive the fortunes of the legion of hard-pressed debtor companies and countries. - By Charles Alexander...
...relationship between the millionaire and her was "no more than that of a wealthy, older, married paramour and a young well-paid mistress." Whether or not she was more than a mistress, he appears to have been the master. During sworn pretrial testimony, Morgan claimed that Bloomingdale would bind several women with his neckties, beat them with a belt and "stand there and watch the girls get on the floor and crawl ... he'd have these girls crawl on the floor, and he'd sit on their back and drool, okay?" The judge also dismissed Morgan...
...snob appeal is pretty thin stuff to bind a book with, and, in the end, it is important to remember the words with which Benjamin C. Bradlee '43 closes his essay...