Word: globe
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...Boston Globe...
...nearly a century, the Globe was undistinguished even by the standards of Boston, a notoriously bad newspaper town. Thomas Winship, who took over as editor in 1965, has transformed the Globe into a feisty, eccentric, unpredictable paper that wavers, from day to day and even from page to page, between brilliance and bathos. Under Winship the paper has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes, two last week. Characteristically, however, almost all the Pulitzers have been for issue crusades, local investigative projects, or opinion, and only one has been for coverage of breaking local news, which remains perhaps the Globe's chief...
...Globe is best when assaying politics, at which it has few peers outside New York and Washington, and sports, at which it may have no peers at all. Editorial Page Editor Martin Nolan has given the opinion columns the same grace and punch he gave the paper's Washington bureau, and Washington Reporters Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie are highly respected. Baseball Writer Peter Gammons may be that sport's most influential daily chronicler. Among other assets: Columnist Ellen Goodman, Humorist Diane White, Music Critic Richard Dyer and Editorial Writer Kirk Scharfenberg...
Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman on his reporting that Rev. Jesse L. Jackson called Jews "Hymies," from The Boston Globe, April...
...banal Paris street, the Rue Bourbon-le-Chateau. Yet the scene is far from ordinary. The orthogonals and links between objects give it a tense, mathematical substructure with all manner of arcane rhymes: the triad, for instance, of the red ball on the ground, the globe over the door and the pompon on the boy's cap. The cast of characters is mixed. The man in white might be a baker, or perhaps Christ carrying the lignum crucis; the two boys are Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the twins from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass...