Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, Simpson found the assignment "the most depressing I've had in my ten years as a journalist. These people were not stereotypical junkies; they were just ordinary people, the kind you would meet at a dinner party. And that made the stories they told about lying and stealing and spending every penny they could lay their hands on that much more frightening. I kept thinking this doesn't happen to nice people; we know how to keep these things under control. But it does, and we don't." Helping make that point with horrifying realism...
...programs, a woman raises her hand and says. "But you still haven't said why the poor are poor, what the economic causes of poverty are." A Black student criticizes him for not emphasizing the fact that Blacks do not compromise the majority of welfare recipients in America. A journalist who has spent much of his time in South American challenges the role of the multinational corporations in the exploitation of labor in the South American countries. Another student, a puerto Rican woman, adds that in America the system is set up to play minority groups off against one another...
Soviet propagandists have made the most of this latest olive branch offer. One optimistic Russian journalist noted that "the good-will that has always marked the Egytptians' attitude toward us has become more open" and that the Lebanese situation "has convinced Egyptians and all Arabs that Israel does not want peace in the Middle East." To top it all off, the Egyptians are casually reminded of the valuable technical assistance provided by Soviet engineers in the construction of the Aswan Dam project, with the tacit promise that more aid will be forthcoming if and when relations are normalized...
Connolly's original partner in detection and the heir to his notebooks was James Fox, a British journalist who went on to reconstruct the crime and, after trips to Kenya and interviews with Lord Erroll's friends, produce a plausible murderer. His gift for narrative immediately carries the reader into a long-gone, closed world of privilege and debauchery. White Mischiefs authentic cast of characters is as satisfyingly repellent a crew as ever peopled Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novel of English predators on the loose in Africa...
...your article "Here Come the Robots" [March 7], Computer Journalist Carl Helmers stated, "These robots will be perceived as companions, like dogs or cats." Anybody who thinks a robot can be a chum, equal to a dog or a cat, is more a mass of shorted circuits than he is human...