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...adds, "I sometimes suspect that we may wind up as millions of ill-tempered senior citizens, complaining about our children and snarling, 'Don't trust anyone under 70.' " Associate Editor Evan Thomas, 35, who wrote the main stories with the assistance of Reporter-Researcher Jeannie Park, 24, has firsthand knowledge of adult life as a Baby Boomer. "My own experience isn't different from that of those I wrote about," says Thomas. "My wife, who's a lawyer, and I had our first child at 30. We are both struggling to manage full-time careers, rear our two daughters...
...just completed two years of reporting for Defense Week, a Washington newsletter on military policies. "Under the Reagan Administration, the military began to receive a remarkable amount of money and influence, and it seemed important to learn more about it," he says. "My father's generation nearly all had firsthand experience with the military, but mine hasn...
Versatility is a quality that is prized at TIME, where the pressures of deadlines and breaking news occasionally push writers, editors and correspondents into varied and unaccustomed roles. Correspondents sometimes write firsthand reports for the magazine, while writers and editors have been known to report from the field on matters of their particular expertise or interest...
...Conservative Club's goal in bringing this man to Harvard was to drum up support for the Contras, the anti-Contra hecklers may have unwittingly supported the very cause they were trying to oppose. Not only were the uncommitted denied the opportunity to witness firsthand the indefensibility of the Contra's position, but any avowed Contra supporters in the audience now have one more reason to be skeptical of the Sandinista's American friends. Aren't those hecklers the same people who accuse the Contras of being Somocistas in disguise, and charge the Somoza regime for suppressing freedom of expression...
...David Halevy visited with both the Sandinistas and the contras. Last month, Lopez was joined in Managua for several days by Staff Writer Jill Smolowe, who has been the author of many stories on Central America since she came to TIME ten months ago. She too was seeking a firsthand look, which helped her in writing this week's major story on Nicaragua under the Sandinistas. "The war did not seem close by or imminent," Smolowe observes, "but there were lots of uniforms and weapons. They sling those Kalashnikovs around rather casually. I saw one young soldier using...