Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENIOR events and souvenirs are supposed to bring the class together, but this shirt leaves a lot of us out. Pardon me, I'm going to be a starving journalist. I probably won't even answer American Express' generous offer to let me get a charge card for only $55 a year...
Philby's is a story oft told -- once, self-servingly, by himself (My Silent War, 1968). It seems likely that Knightley's will stand as the definitive account, despite its pedestrian style: Knightley, a former special correspondent for London's Sunday Times, was the only Western journalist to interview Philby at length during his last years of semiretirement in Moscow...
...eight years, Reagan treated the press as if it had leprosy. The Bush approach, to treat the press as friend and confidant rather than journalist, is quite different. If it goes too far, if journalists become indebted to the president for his time and hospitality, the press may become less critical and less searching...
History has played few tricks with as many odd twists and turns as the U.S.'s imperial adventure in the Philippines. In his first book since Vietnam: A History, journalist and historian Stanley Karnow chronicles 90 years of the U.S.'s relationship with its former colony with a keen eye for such incongruities. Beginning with a penetrating look at 300 years of cruel Spanish rule in the islands, Karnow sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo...
Other recent speakers include Canadian satirist Garry Trudeau, journalist Ted Koppel, industrialist Lee A. Ioccoca and newspaper publisher Katherine Graham...