Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidence among Africans themselves. "What kind of people are we?" asks one African leader. "Are we not forced to admit that our continent lives in absolute poverty?" Such questions underscore a painful truth. "The years of freedom have mounted up, mocking the plausibility of the excuses for failure," British journalist Ian Smiley wrote in the Atlantic Monthly. "Africa is back where it was 50 years...
This last linkup boosted Smith's already high standing in Japan. "Many, many Japanese auto tycoons are trying to emulate Smith-san," says Nobuyoshi Yoshida, Japan's leading automotive journalist, who praises Smith for his flexibility, his keen accountant's eye and his pragmatic deal-making ability. Adds Yoshida: "Japanese businessmen would feel guilty doing business with such rivals as Nissan and Toyota at the same time...
...years later, when British Journalist Peter Watson set out to find the painting, Italian authorities had long since written it off. The Caravaggio Conspiracy is Watson's enthralling account of that search, which led him perilously deep into the byways of the international art underworld. Among the astonishing facts he uncovered is that most art thefts are pulled off with as little difficulty as the Caravaggio caper in Palermo. In Italy alone, 44,000 works of art disappear each year. Indeed, during Watson's dogged investigation, enough masterpieces were purloined from churches, galleries and private homes to furnish...
...What journalist coping with the pressures of the news does not occasionally wax nostalgic for what is remembered as the relaxed life of academe? By next spring 30 TIME staff members will have briefly sampled college life again under the auspices of the TlME-Duke University Fellowship program. Each year since 1979, six TIME journalists have traveled to Durham, N.C., for a four-week sabbatical, attending classes and undertaking research projects. In return, they are invited to share their knowledge, experience and perspective with students and faculty members in informal meetings. Says Bill Green, Duke's director of university...
...theme of the unforgivable offense reverberates up and down the 20th century, perhaps because such a crime is thought to be more against man-or more accurately, more against the tribe-than against God. Harold R. Isaacs, a journalist and political scientist, observed in his 1975 book Idols of the Tribe: "We are experiencing on a massively universal scale a convulsive ingathering of people in their numberless grouping of kinds-tribal, racial, linguistic, religious, national. It is a great clustering into separatenesses that will, it is thought, improve, assure, or extend each group's power or place, or keep...