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...wake of Theodore Sr. was his adoring wife Martha, a Southern belle who conveyed into middle age the voice of flute song, the fragrance of blue violets. Besides Teddy, known as "Teedie," there were three other children, all equipped with their own preppie nicknames: Anna, known as "Bamie," Elliott, known as "Ellie," and Corinne, known as "Conie...
...guidelines acceptable. Then, after months of lobbying by the three U.S. formula makers and the Grocery Manufacturers of America, an interagency task force recommended that the U.S. discreetly abstain on the WHO code. Yet days before the ballot, word came down from the White House to vote no. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, declared that U.S. aid programs would continue to encourage breast feeding, but that the WHO limit on infant-formula advertising "has grave constitutional problems for us-we couldn't adopt it here at home, and we couldn't recommend...
...much of the world that he had shattered a taboo that even assassins should observe. Nearly everyone repeated the question that the wounded Pope himself had asked: "Why did they do it?" To shoot at politicians may have become lamentably routine, but, as Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said: "One must wonder whether our world has become so barbaric that it is incapable of respecting the lives of God's own messengers of peace." It was hardly the first time it has happened, of course. After a militant Hindu nationalist shot down Mahatma Gandhi...
...journalistic categories and seven others in the arts, and are on their way home after lunch. Thus was Cooke's story chosen. The Pulitzer Prize remains the highest honor in newspaper journalism, but its selection process is badly in need of repair. One reform is suggested by Osborn Elliott, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: Let no editor "get off the hook by oversubmitting" let editors narrow their own entries, "and face their own internal politics more directly." For the Washington Post, Ombudsman Green had a harsher recommendation: "The scramble for journalistic prizes is poisonous . . .Maybe...
...Prize board was so impressed with Cooke's work that it gave her the award in another category, overturning the feature writing jury's choice of Teresa Carpenter of the Village Voice, who was belatedly given the honor after the fraud was discovered. Says Board Member Osborn Elliott, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism: "It was a very dramatic telling and a moving piece. I figured that the Post had verified it." It was the first known fakery in the 64-year history of the Pulitzer Prizes...