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HEMPHILL announces his biases at the outset of The Good Old Boys: He believes, probably correctly, that the South as a distinct and different part of America is dying, and that his job is to chronicle what's left of it. He writes about sports, failure, country music, religion and small-town life but for the most part avoids sounding like he's spouting the standard Southern cliches. His subject matter is "Real Southy" enough to warm any New York magazine editor's heart, to be sure, but Hemphill consistently succeeds at writing with a deep and genuine feeling...
...furnished a workable solution to that dilemma, but it is clear that leaders and potential leaders will have to work in three interrelated yet distinct areas: 1) institutional reform; 2) political philosophy; 3) personal attitudes...
...constitutional shield on press freedom, helping U.S. journalism to become the most independent and vigorous in the world. In the process, the business of informing its audience became far more important than polemics, and the U.S. press also developed the unique American notion of "objective" reporting, as distinct from editorial opinion...
...choice: either to strike back at Soviet population centers while knowing that Moscow retained the ability to counterstrike at U.S. cities, or to make major concessions to the Soviets and avoid further endangering American civilians. As farfetched as this "worst case" scenario seems, some strategists see it as a distinct danger should the two nations find themselves locked in a major international dispute...
...power April 25. Before the week was out, the government had taken full control of the television network, but it was the editor's arrest that touched at the heart of the junta's key problem: how to get out of Africa. That arduous process hit several distinct bumps last week, and there is the jarring prospect of more still to come...