Word: columnist
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...President reportedly wants to punch columnist William Safire for impugning his wife's integrity over Whitewater and the travel office firings. Press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters today that, after reading Safire's Monday column, which called the first lady "a congenital liar," Clinton was so steamed, that "if he were not the president, would have delivered a more forceful response to that on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose...
...greatest aspirations as a columnist has been to bring poorly publicized but still pressing issues into the collective awareness. Often, the people hurt by a particular injustice are those most powerless to defend themselves through legislation, finance and the media. It is important to give these people a public voice, however small, that they might not otherwise have...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Should American families be taxed to enrich the shareholders of powerful companies like Disney, Time Warner, and TCI? Raising that question in Thursday's New York Times, columnist William Safire reports that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole told him that the sweeping telecommunications reform bill, already passed by the House and Senate and now in conference to resolve differences, effectively loans telecom giants immensely valuable new digital bandwidths worth an estimated $70 billion. "This is a big, big corporate welfare project," Safire says Dole told him. "Here we're cutting Medicaid and doing all the painful things while...
...reporter, Reston's grasp of global gamesmanship led him to the New York Times. His first job: correspondent during the London blitz. He went on to win a Pulitzer chronicling the birth of the U.N. and, in 1953, became the paper's Washington bureau chief. As a thrice-weekly columnist, he gained fame for his deft prose, solid reporting and enviable access, but the latter often came at a price. In 1961, at President John F. Kennedy's request, he withheld what he knew of plans involving an obscure Cuban inlet called the Bay of Pigs. Reston later helped nurture...
MICHAEL LEWIS, THE FINANCIAL COLUMNIST FOR THE NEW YORK Times Magazine, has figured out that by tweaking the rich, eventually you can become one of them. He tweaked the bond traders in his bestseller, Liar's Poker, and profited like a bond trader from the book sales. In his latest column he tweaks Steve Forbes, the presidential candidate who owns Forbes magazine, for "leading the charge to eliminate capital-gains taxes...