Word: journalism
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Huntington and Betts published another version of their "Dead Dictators" article in the Wall Street Journal (13 August 1986) after Marcos was out. The whole discussion about the Philippines and the false conclusions are omitted, in light of Marcos's replacement by Aquino, which occurred in the meantime. Once more, both articles make it appear as if certain political opinions are rooted in scholarship or science...
...Childhood obesity is epidemic in the United States," said Dr. William H. Dietz Jr. of New England Medical Center, a co-author of the study, which is being published in the May issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children. "The implications are that there is going to be a major rise in the prevalence of adult obesity and its consequences...
...following journal entries are all that could be translated from the brilliant yet cryptic texts that were recently found in the secret archives of the author who, we must sadly report, has committed ritual suicide to protest the unsightly green vomit that Harvard pours all over the yard each spring...
This week an obscure literary journal, Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Peoples), will publish the first of three monthly installments of Anatoli Rybakov's startling novel, Children of the Arbat, which takes place during Stalin's reign of terror. The publication has been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this...
...first to agree with that proposition was Alexander Tvardovsky, former editor of the literary journal Novy Mir, which in 1962 published Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a book about life in a Stalinist prison camp. Tvardovsky ran a notice in 1966 saying that the first part of Children of the Arbat would appear in 1967. It never did. In 1978 another monthly, Oktyabr, included Children of the Arbat in a list of books to be serialized in 1979. But again the year passed with neither publication nor explanation. The version that begins running this...