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...story of Roger Tamraz, a U.S. citizen of Lebanese descent born in Cairo, as told in the Wall Street Journal last week, suggests just how far Democratic officials were willing to go to hide a quid and deliver a quo. Tamraz wanted to build his billion-dollar oil pipeline through the warring nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. He sought U.S. blessing for the project to help secure financing, and with the aid of some State Department officials, arranged a meeting in June 1995 with NSC Central Asia specialist Sheila Heslin. She was not impressed with his pitch and didn...
...more involved games like "Descent" and "Marathon" serve the same purpose...
Before we chalk this difference up to the nobler impulses of journalists past, let's acknowledge some history. Broadcast journalism came of age on radio in the late 1930s, when a generation of brilliant radio correspondents chronicled the world's descent into war--news as significant as it was compelling. When the new medium of television came into our living rooms, the news was driven by similar stories: the Korean War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, Watergate. All were stories of the most traditional sort, yet all possessed great drama...
...play's action traces the descent into madness and furtive attempts at self defense of the title character, a soldier with an unfaithful wife and illegitimate child. Woyzeck is beaten up, experimented on and tortured until he snaps back, turning on the one thing he loves, his wife. His progression of distrust and anger leads him not only to doubt, but also to succumb slowly and miserably under a tide of filth and oppression...
Although the magazine focuses on Korean-American issues, among its contributors are international students as well as undergraduates who are not of Korean descent...