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Born in North Carolina, White wanted to be a journalist as long as he can remember. Since he started as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1967, he has practiced his craft with a mission in mind: "I've spent most of my career writing about what it means to be black in America, trying to translate that for a wider audience." Joining TIME in 1972, he worked first as a writer in New York, then as a correspondent in Atlanta and Boston. In 1976 White won a Nieman Fellowship and went to Harvard to study ethnic politics...
Last week that career change paid off in a spectacular fashion. Lewis struck a single deal that will transform his investment firm, TLC Group, into the largest black-owned business in the U.S. Beating out such rival bidders as Citicorp, Pillsbury and Shearson Lehman Bros., Manhattan-based TLC (stands for "The Lewis Company") signed an agreement to make a $985 million acquisition of Beatrice's International Food division, a profitable hodgepodge of 64 companies in 31 countries that manufacture everything from ice cream to sausages...
Bender illustrates the tension between the two options with short yet detailed biographies of key New York intellectuals. He follows career changes, from professor to magazine editor, government official to man about town...
Something positively weird is going on with the political career of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The angry outsider, the superheated maverick who used to beat up on the Democratic Party just four years ago, no longer seems angry. His shrillness has almost vanished. Sometimes he is even in danger of being bland...
...denied any connection with the abortive action by the public prosecutor's office. Before taking up his post in 1985, Sartzetakis was a respected prosecutor and judge who was imprisoned and tortured under the dictatorial Greek junta of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part of his career was dramatized in the 1968 movie Z. But the President has often been lampooned for his intolerance of press criticism and his regal life-style. After the bust, the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou issued a statement assuring citizens that it respected freedom of expression...