Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speechwriter for Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon, Buchanan, 47, has no trouble distinguishing Right from wrong in his own mind. While speaking at White House meetings, he often busily draws little boxes, as if he were sorting the facts into tidy little ideological compartments. Says Tom Braden, a liberal columnist and Buchanan's former sparring partner in radio and TV debate: "Pat always polarizes an issue. He never sees shades; he's plain black and white...
...fellows come to Harvard at a "period of transition in their careers," says Donovan. Past fellows include Washington Post columnist David S. Broder, feminist Betty Freidan, and Vermont Governor Madeline Kunin...
...insurance in 1984, and the American Medical Association (AMA) predicts the figure will reach $7 billion within three years. Medical, legal and insurance industries, each rapacious in its own inimitable way, have evolved into three fiercely competitive and increasingly unscrupulous rivals. One disgruntled, and perhaps uninformed, Boston Globe columnist recently quipped that any attempt to take sides on the malpractice issue "is like trying to decide whom to cheer for if war erupted between Libya, Iran, and Iraq...
Funded almost entirely by national interests including columnist William F. Buckley and supported by 3000 right-wing alumni, the weekly Review has a short but controversial history of political stunts...
...goings-on in the Examiner's newsroom often sound more interesting than anything the reporters cover. After Hearst hired David Burgin, 46, away from the Orlando Sentinel last year to be the Examiner's new editor, Burgin signed up Columnists Thompson and Cyra McFadden, author of The Serial, a send-up of Marin County mores. Hearst wooed away Warren Hinckle, an eccentric Chronicle columnist who bludgeons miscreants, real and imagined, in print and never goes anywhere without his basset hound, Bentley. When Frank McCulloch, 66, a veteran journalist who had just retired as executive editor of the California- based McClatchy...