Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officers who, while on active duty, signed antiwar petitions and called for the dismissal of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. He described their actions as "the first signs of mutiny" and "something we have never witnessed before." Acting Attorney General Meir Gabay named a team of investigators to decide whether Journalist-Politician Uri Avnery should be prosecuted for slipping into West Beirut to meet with Yasser Arafat...
...what I'd be giving up for equality, but I do know what I'd be giving up if we went back to the '50s," she says. "I wouldn't be in school. There'd be no reason for me to be hi school. I could forget becoming a journalist, unless I wanted to write a cooking column some place...
Both books show the results of exhaustive research, including lengthy interviews with Herrin. Meyer, a freelance journalist, re-creates the case with admirable detachment. Gaylin, a distinguished psychiatrist and author (Feelings; Partial Justice) - and an admitted "father of daughters" - has specialized in questions of crime and punishment for more than 20 years. He delivers some pungent comments on the psychiatric "storytellers" on both sides, who "were acting as dutiful agents of the men who were paying their fees...
...many things, though never of wearying his readers. Some, however, may be dissatisfied with the loose connections between Teenager's story and that of Maximo and Nicki. Both story lines meander and end abruptly as if Breslin had run out of anecdotes. But he is a brilliant descriptive journalist and compensates on nearly every page with energetic, often humorous scenes...
...Each journalist recounts horrific incidents of government waste, incompetent planning and incoherent design. China was once Joseph Stalin's most pupil, and though it broke with more than a decade ago, the legacy of Soviet "intensive industrialization" Butterfield cites the all-too-typical $13.3 billion mill designed to manufacture 3 million tons of steel a year. When the Chinese turned on the switch, they found the plant demanded more electric than the entire surrounding could produce...