Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every political position has a tendency to demonize those who don't agree with it. Communist states and military dictatorships do it with a passion, but it is no stranger to American politics, either. Senator Joe McCarthy made his brief and infamous career out of slander and innuendo in the 1950s and the Left and Right have traded accusations of "communism" and "fascism" for decades. But why do otherwise intelligent and rational people have to resort to such character assassination? And why does it continue to happen on university campuses, of all places...
During McManus' all too brief 19 months in command at TIME, the magazine was particularly praised for last year's American Best special issue, the creation of an Ethics section, the pioneering application of new technology to provide late coverage of the breakdown of the Iceland summit, and the remarkable use of photography in the Statue of Liberty Centennial issue, including the largest picture ever to appear in TIME, a four-page foldout of the fireworks over New York harbor. For such achievements last year, the magazine is again one of the five finalists for a National Magazine Award...
Barnes' tenure was relatively brief but superheated. After becoming chairman in 1981, the Harvard-educated lawyer pumped Mellon loans to energy companies in the Southwest and beefed up its real estate portfolio in Dallas and other oil towns. The lending and real estate business foundered along with OPEC: energy-related loans now account for more than half of Mellon's $1.45 billion in write-offs and nonperforming assets. Mellon also has $178 million in repossessed properties, a sixfold increase from what it owned in late 1984. Bad loans to Mexico and Brazil further crimped the bank's strained resources...
...those experiences were raw material for his novel, but it was only after the passage of many years -- and his 1960 "rehabilitation" -- that Rybakov could bring himself to attempt the actual writing. "I felt almost ashamed of what happened to me, because my sentence was brief and not very difficult alongside those who really suffered -- those who were shot or who spent 16 or 17 years in camps and came home with their health destroyed," Rybakov says. "And for many years I knew that because of my record, anything I wrote would never be published. But I did some writing...
...candidacy had been foreordained ever since he promised the 1984 Democratic Convention, "This is one Hart you will not leave in San Francisco." But in politics these days, choosing a suitably telegenic backdrop is often as important as the announcement itself. Hart wanted to keep it simple, making the brief statement from the front porch of his log-and-stone house in the Colorado mountains, 25 miles from Denver. His handlers preferred something more dramatic and expansive, with, of course, more room for reporters and TV crews. Caught between a rock and a hard place, the former Colorado Senator chose...