Word: columnist
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Presented essentially as an open letter to President Clinton, the new book by columnist Ben Wattenberg describes how Clinton swayed from the centrist social positions that got him elected and suggests ways in which he, or whoever captures the "values" debate, can win the presidency in '96. "Wattenberg is at his most impressive when dealing with the specifics of the disjunction between what Clinton promised and how he has governed," says TIME's Elizabeth Gleick. "These rare sharp moments, however, are surrounded by more stuffing than a Thanksgiving turkey. Wattenberg fills 400 windy and repetitive pages with folksy statements...
...feel sorry for Belle, and not just because his temper cost him the MVP award voted on by the baseball writers," columnist Bill Livingston wrote. "I feel sorry for a man who is so joyless, when he created so much happiness for this city. And I feel bad for a man who hears the music, but cannot dance...
What's a handler to do with a President who is addicted to bouts of over-the-phone self-analysis with not always friendly reporters? Sigh--and then insist the reporters have taken key phrases out of context. Such was the White House response after columnist Ben Wattenberg published excerpts of a telephone call he recently received from President Clinton. According to Wattenberg, the voluble Clinton offered a self-critique of his first two years: the President had "lost the language" appropriate to a moderate New Democrat; he had become too interested in the "legislative scorecard"; he had erred...
Buchanan insists that raising the living standard of working Americans is the key to "relieving some of the social tensions and social divisions." But as a speechwriter, columnist and candidate, he has rarely missed a chance to open those wounds and pour salt in them. In 1992 he talked publicly about the problems a million immigrant "Zulus" might have assimilating in Virginia, compared with a million "Englishmen." He has expressed some doubts about the Holocaust and has said of the AIDS epidemic that "promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide." His past attacks on gays, Jews...
Federal prosecutors are reported by Business Week to be looking into whether influential Wall Street columnist and broadcaster Dan Dorfman was involved in illegal insider trading, wire and mail fraud and securities-law violations through his friendship with a stock promoter. Dorfman, who denies the allegations, has taken a leave from MONEY magazine (which is owned by Time Inc.) pending resolution of the matter...