Word: editor
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...black community. "He was a role model," said Congressman Charles Hayes, a Washington crony who represents the South Side district that sent the mayor to the House from 1981 to 1983. "I never believed Harold could open up a city and turn it around as he did." Roy Larson, editor of the monthly Chicago Reporter, called Washington's death a "loss in the family in the way Jack Kennedy...
...religion without being a religion," says Robert J.L. Burrows, publications editor of the evangelical Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley. "Humans are essentially religious creatures, and they don't rest until they have some sort of answer to the fundamental questions. Rationalism and secularism don't answer those questions. But you can see the rise of the New Age as a barometer of the disintegration of American culture. Dostoyevsky said anything is permissible if there is no God. But anything is also permissible if everything is God. There is no way of making any distinction between good and evil...
Even more distressing, Italians have awakened from the euphoria of their economic miracle to discover that many things are as bad as ever -- particularly government corruption and world-class inefficiency. In a best- selling new book called Lo Sfascio (literally, the crumbling, or collapse), Giampaolo Pansa, deputy editor of the daily La Repubblica, writes that Italy is coming apart at the seams, not because of the Red Brigades, Middle East terrorists or civil war, as was once feared, but because of its own political . follies and foibles. Describing the everyday struggle of Italians to get driver's licenses, business permits...
...economy stand at a turning point, the timing could hardly be better for the appearance of Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (Simon & Schuster; 798 pages; $24.95) by William Greider, the national editor of Rolling Stone magazine. Greider, whose 1981 Atlantic article revealed David Stockman's secret doubts about Reaganomics and caused the President to take his young budget director "to the woodshed," is once again at his provocative best. The book, which takes its name from the fact that in ancient times the creation of money often occurred in temples, is a lucid...
...much doggery? Kitty Brown, editor of Animal Entertainment, a New York City trade publication, thinks the answer has a lot to do with the mood of the late '80s. "Times are tough," she says, "and we need a little innocence, something that hearkens back to childhood." Others might say that Hollywood hearkens to money: if one dog movie cashes in, ten imitations sprout up within a year...