Word: journaliste
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...Bunker 13, his first novel, the Indian investigative journalist Aniruddha Bahal works so hard to be shocking that it's difficult not to love the guy. He has concocted a story preposterous enough for Austin Powers, never mind James Bond, extravagantly overstuffed with sex, drugs and gore interwoven in Baroque variations. The action begins with the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir and ultimately embraces rottenness and greed on a global scale...
...million camp deaths. This does not include those who died in the other chapters of Soviet terror - man-made famine in Ukraine, collectivization, the executions during the purge years and civil war. A low estimate for the total death toll is around 10 million. Applebaum, an American journalist, describes the history of the camps, from their origins in the early 1920s, when the majestic Solovetsky Monastery was turned into a political prison, through what Solzhenitsyn called its metastasis into the Gulag system - the word is an acronym for Glavnoye Upravlenie Lagerey, or Main Directorate of Camps. She then lays...
Sulzberger named Joseph Lelyveld, Raines' predecessor--a measured manager, liked in the newsroom--to be the interim executive editor while a replacement search is under way. Sulzberger tells TIME he's looking for a "great journalist" who is "an effective leader and a manager"--which, in the wake of the Raines war, may be more than mere corporate-speak. "If employees are happy and fulfilled," he says, "generally what they produce is good." Times employees say they are relieved to have a respite from the turmoil with Lelyveld, who addressed the newsroom Friday, ending with four simple words...
DIED. WALLACE TERRY, 65, pioneering black journalist whose coverage of the Vietnam War for the Washington Post and TIME led to the 1984 best seller Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, which became a 1986 PBS documentary; of Wegener's granulomatosis, an inflammation of the blood vessels; in Falls Church...
...partly because she was drunk and because she thought it would be fun to write a novel about the story." -Pramote Prathumwong, Deputy commander of the Bangkok police, on So Leong-Ying, the Hong Kong journalist who fabricated a claim that she was gang-raped...