Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will do his bit in his own way. Last year he quit the Jeffrey Ballet company and became a free lance journalist. One assignment: an article about his dad for Family Circle magazine's June issue, just in time for Father's Day. What better way to make a father proud - and maybe even win a few votes...
...Khomeini's top brass. But although they have scored relatively few victories recently, the guerrillas are by no means ready to accept defeat. "We are dealing with Khomeini in our own way," Mujahedin National Commander Ali Zarkesh, 34, said in his Tehran hideout to an Iranian journalist. (The group's overall leader, Massoud Rajavi, is in exile in Paris.) "We are slowly suffocating his regime, spreading a creeping paralysis throughout his military-police apparatus." The most wanted man on the Ayatullah's hit list, Zarkesh remains convinced that the ruling clerics could be brought down...
...covert, that characterizes many émigrés' writing about their native country; Dovlatov's stories gently ridicule the obtuseness of the Soviet bureaucracy and the mendacity and corruption that invade everyday life. In The Compromise the author comically contrasts the news stories written by a Soviet journalist with what actually occurred. For example, a published report on the funeral of a high Communist Party official ("Above the open grave the solemn words of leave-taking were pronounced") is followed by an account of public consternation at the obsequies after it is discovered that a morgue attendant...
Past speakers have included psychologist Erik Erikssor, journalist George Will, and former secretary of Defence and Energy James R. Schlesinger...
...series was endowed at Harvard in 1903 by friends of British journalist Edwin L. Godkin for the delivery and publication of lectures on "the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen...