Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue then] really had this kind oflife-and-death urgency that's hard to replicatenow," notes New York Times opinion columnist FrankRich Jr. '71. "It's such a different world now.It's almost apples and oranges."Crimson File PhotoTop: Soldiers march in Boston's 1969Veterans' Day parade. Bottom: Students during lastyear's Commencement hold pink balloons reading'Lift the Ban,' a reference to the military'sformer policy on gays.CrimsonMelody A. LeeTies That Bind: Harvard and ROTC...
Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman says that "I Don't Know" is the motto for the Class of '94, just as "Make Love Not War" was the motto for the Class of '69. What does "I Don't Know" mean? It's supposed to capture our sense of pessimistic uncertainty and the fact that we aren't afraid to admit it. "They see the world booby-trapped with unintended consequences," writes Goodman. "[W]hen asked about the future, this generation has the honesty to answer: 'I don't know...
...politician of the '90s. Not the blow-dried telegenic kind; burly, raspy-voiced Dan Rostenkowski remained a backroom dealmaker to the bitter end. He won vast respect as the Congressman who could + massage the tough bills -- tax reform, maybe health care -- into literally passable form. But, says Chicago political columnist Steve Neal, "he was caught in a sort of time warp," and he is under investigation for allegedly taking perks that were common in the Chicago wards of the 1950s, and even in Congress when he arrived there 35 years ago, but are now forbidden. And even though he angrily...
After a lifetime spent observing, a journalist sees so much pass by that it can blur with the years. But every reporter remembers the special moments and the extraordinary people he encounters. TIME contributor Bonnie Angelo and columnist Hugh Sidey both covered the White House during the 1,000 days of the Kennedy Administration. Those times, and now the remarkable woman who helped define them, are gone. But Angelo and Sidey recall the vivid moments they...
...columnist of the left, Kempton is anything but doctrinaire. He sympathizes as easily with Richard Nixon during his troubles over the buying of a Manhattan co-op as he excoriates Alger Hiss for failing to offer State Department protection to an American victim of Stalin. His prescience is often uncanny. Writing of Ronald Reagan as Governor of California in 1968, he could have been summing up Reagan's presidency 20 years later: "For touching a people who want to forget ugly problems, no politician equals the one who has already forgotten them himself...