Word: globe
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Some journalists also found the letter troubling. "I may not be able to define perfectly the 'invasion of privacy' in presidential politics," wrote Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman, "but I know it when I see it. This is it." In the Times's defense, Whitney argues that reporting is "one big fishing expedition. That doesn't mean we print everything we find...
...leaders of major industrial democracies* meet at the economic summit in Venice this week. That the battle against AIDS will require international cooperation was a point repeatedly made by top AIDS researchers at the Washington conference. Speaker after speaker emphasized the lengthening reach of the AIDS virus around the globe -- and the potential magnitude of the problem for policymakers. Said U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Lowell T. Harmison: "We are at war with a global disease...
...wonder then that a wave of nervousness swept through financial markets last week when Ronald Reagan announced an epochal change at the Federal Reserve Board, the chief government authority for setting U.S. monetary policy. Political leaders, investors and currency traders in every part of the globe were understandably concerned that a new and untested man was being entrusted with the fate of the dollar, the course of U.S. interest rates and quite possibly the prosperity of the world economy. The change was all the more dramatic because it removed from the scene a commanding figure who in eight years...
...their favorite choice to refill the role made famous by Vivien Leigh. Seymour won both polls hands down, and rumors began to fly. "People have been asking me about this for months," she complains. Instead of standing on tiptoe, Seymour has kept herself quite busy, thank you, by globe-trotting from Japan, where she played host to a PBS documentary on the country, to Argentina and Spain, where she filmed El Tunel (The Tunnel) with Spanish Director Antonio Drove. "I played a woman obsessed with love," reports Seymour. Hmmm. Would "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" sound...
...noted civil rights lawyer said he had"received dozens of phone calls" from alumni who,in light of the Globe piece, were disturbed byHarvard's decision to name von Weizsacker as theCommencement speaker...