Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times, Columnist James Reston asserted that had the ruling been in effect a few years ago, it could have prevented publication of the Pentagon papers by the Times and the pursuit of Watergate by the Washington Post. In the case of the Pentagon papers, he says, federal investigators could have gone right into the New York hotel room where the Times staffers were preparing the classified documents for publication and seized them, presumably as evidence of a theft. As for Watergate, Reston contends that the ruling would probably have enabled agents of the Nixon Administration, conceivably pursuing evidence...
Steven Brill, a graduate of Yale Law school and a regular columnist on the law with Esquire Fortnightly, said he thought the change in LSATs had its greatest effect on law schools with rolling admissions. "Rolling admissions law schools take people at the top of the curve first, which means that they take the guy with the 800s first. If a guy who took the test in July gets placed in a holding file with a 720 score, and the law school meanwhile accepts people with higher scores from the October LSATs, the 720s guy may get lost...
...Brazil, an economic columnist complained that "it seems that there are only eleven important people in the world"-the Brazilian team members. Estimates of the games' cost to Brazil's G.N.P. in lost production ranged up to $2 billion. Auto industry workers were negotiating with manufacturers for afternoons off during the World Cup series, to be made up later...
William Safire. L.H.D., columnist...
Hugh Sidey, LL.D., columnist...