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...Harvard Crimson recently got the chance to speak with Allegra Goodman '89 about her new novel, Paradise Park. Allegra Goodman: It's nice to talk to someone from The Harvard Crimson. I miss being in college. I loved Harvard. It was so much fun.The Harvard Crimson: When did you decide to become a writer?AG: I pretty much decided when I was a little girl. By the time I got to Harvard I was writing pretty seriously. I really thought of myself as a writer in college. My first book was a book of short stories, Total Immersion. I wrote...
...their work is based on intuition or visceral reaction to reporting," says former cia analyst Melvin Goodman, now a professor at Washington's National War College. "The standards of evidence are very weak." Former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith agrees: "You have bits and pieces you can assemble that give you some degree of confidence that you're accurate, but it's rare you find a smoking gun." In some cases, of course, a tiny bit of evidence can make all the difference. In the Pan Am 103 case, for example, it was the CIA that first identified the fragment...
Tennessee native and ex-presidential candidate Lamar Alexander began teaching at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday as the Goodman Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service...
...Goodman, an award-winning rabble rouser whose show is carried by 30-some stations, does not have a change-up. She only has fastballs, and she throws at the head. For 30 minutes she kept Clinton dancing and ducking, at one point accusing him of being responsible for the genocide of 5,000 Iraqi children monthly through U.S. sanctions. It was vintage Pacifica Radio, the hell-raising, corporate-bashing voice of the left for a half-century, with stations in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, in addition to WBAI and the flagship KPFA in Berkeley, Calif. But that voice...
...Many are calling it a political purge," says Goodman, who's been feuding with management over what she regards as attempts to turn her bark into a yip that would be more palatable to more listeners. She has lamented the firings on-air, and 300 loyal listeners marched last week demanding that the commercial-free and listener-supported station be returned to its rightful owner--them...