Word: journaliste
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...first term at Oxford, my father wrote and asked me to send him books by R.K. Narayan. The name was new to me. My father was a journalist. He also wrote stories, in English, about our rural Trinidad Indian community; and he was always on the lookout for Indian writers in whose work he might find encouragement. Narayan, writing in English about small people in a small south Indian town, would have been especially interesting for my father. I went to Blackwell's, the Oxford bookseller, and in the secondhand section found three Narayan titles. One was The Bachelor...
...TiVo has decided it knows what's best for me. Pretending to be a responsible journalist, I have the news on in my office, but my TiVo - the digital TV recorder that is a trusted sidekick for my job as a television critic - figures I'd rather watch So Weird, a goopy family show on the Disney Channel. And unlike my VCR, TiVo can do something about it. A couple of clicks from its infrared channel changer and instead of the conflict in the Middle East, there's One Day at a Time's Mackenzie Phillips - yes, she's still...
...Instead of reporting, Furlaud turned to the stage at the College, where she achieved what the frequently-heard journalist says is her "one claim to fame" in life...
...Meanwhile, terror continues. A week before the polls, ETA gunmen shot dead a PP politician as he walked to a soccer match with his son. Last week, a letter-bomb seriously injured journalist Gorka Landáburu, a frequent critic of ETA. Landáburu is as Basque as Basque can be: his father Francisco, also a journalist, was a leading nationalist who rose through the PNV ranks to become vice-'lehendakari' in exile. Which is yet more proof that terror is blind, and that newly elected lehendakari Ibarretxe is going to need all the help...
...take a year at Harvard to study something that first interested me in 1984,” said Matthew Brelis, a business reporter for the Boston Globe. “It’s going to make me a better journalist to study something that is pretty complex...