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Crusading professionals are out in force on TV screens again this fall, but most seem untouched by the winds of change. CBS's Kay O'Brien, about a female surgeon, is Dr. Kildare crossed with Cagney & Lacey. In ABC's Jack and Mike, a newspaper columnist rushes to help folks in trouble while trying to keep her marriage afloat, a yuppie update of Hart to Hart. In CBS's Downtown, a tough cop gets crime-fighting help from four oddball parolees, a sort of B-Team. In addition to the routine fare, however, Bochco and Mann are introducing second- generation...
...very dry sense of humor and I'm sure he was just horsing around," said Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman, who served with Daniloff as a Nieman fellow...
...rush by lawmakers and government officials to pass antidrug legislation and prove their own purity by submitting to urinalysis has provoked the mirth of columnists and the sighs of weary legislators who have lived through earlier drug crises. New York Times Columnist William Safire writes mockingly of "drugocrats" waging "jar wars." Says Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "We're all going to drug conferences and making the Secretary of State pee into a paper...
Ellen P. Goodman '63, columnist for the Boston Globe, said that she thought the letters might do some good and certainly couldn't hurt. "Gorbachev doesn't get up in the morning and worry about what Derek Bok or the Nieman fellows think, but it's part of the whole larger sense of knowing that the community--and the journalistic community--is concerned and aware," said Goodman, who was a Nieman Fellow with Daniloff...
...also in an era when self-censorship comes not only because of lawsuit problems but because there is going to be a letter writing campaign, picketing, a different climate of public opinion," said Ellen P. Goodman '63, a columnist for The Boston Globe...