Word: joe
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...Kevin Smith, chair of the ethics committee for the Society of Professional Journalists, on Newsweek's Joe Klein and Maynard Parker. After months of denial, Klein recently disclosed that he is the author of the political novel "Primary Colors"; Parker, the Newsweek editor who knew all along that Klein wrote the book, allowed his magazine to publish false speculation on who the author...
...violence on television; pressuring Big Media into accepting a ratings system and a V-chip technology to let parents control what their kids can see on the tube; embracing school uniforms and curfews; plunging into tobacco row with a machete to stop cigarette companies from luring the young with Joe Camel and the Marlboro...
...their choice. The response drew quick and sharp condemnation from the Clinton Administration, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. "Bob Dole wants to tear down public education by pitting teachers against parents and dramatically reducing our investment in public schools," said Clinton campaign press secretary Joe Lockhart. TIME's Tamala Edwards notes that although Dole is addressing an issue of great concern to parents, he fails to put a human face on the problem. "There are a lot of parents out there who are fed up with the level of public school education," says Edwards...
Sayles tries to keep Sam's never-ending search from getting too ponderous and repetitive by introducing one other major plot line. Basically, this consists of a colonel, Delmore, (Joe Morton) just transferred to the area as he struggles not to deal with his deadbeat dad Otis (Ron Canada) who always lived there. Since these issues are standard--wild father, overcompensatingly strict son, and day-dreaming third generation--these sub-plots are more valuable for the amusing ironies that come forth. For example, Otis keeps a back-shed museum of black Seminole artifacts and doesn't fail to point...
...independents are flourishing too. "Ten years ago, we had trouble getting clients interested in the future five years out," says Joe Coates, president of the Washington-based consulting firm Coates and Jarratt. "Now we have 50 clients who are interested in the future 10 years or more...