Word: journalistic
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ANNE FRANK What is there to know about her that she didn't tell us in her famous Diary? A good deal, according to journalist Melissa Muller, whose Anne Frank fills in, through interviews and research, the young diarist's world...
...picture the Moscow summit made. Bill Clinton looking weary and spent, his head sunk in his hands, his lips tight in a glum line as reporters badgered him about Monica. Boris Yeltsin next to him, befuddled and disoriented as he struggled to link answers coherently to questions. When a journalist asked whether the Russian President would accept someone other than Viktor Chernomyrdin as nominee for Prime Minister, Yeltsin paused for a moment that grew painfully long. "Well," he finally said, "I must say, we will witness quite a few events for us to be able to achieve these results. That...
Jonathan Cottin, 61, a longtime journalist and Washington lobbyist who has been without full-time work since 1993, says, "We intimidate people who are younger than we are and who might be our boss. They see their parents, and if they've had a bad relationship with their parents, that counts against us. Secondly, the human-resources departments in companies do the math and figure out that in five to seven years we might be a burden on health or pension programs. There isn't much attention paid to the merit we can bring...
...good thing for the people who bombed a locally owned Planet Hollywood restaurant in the city's tourist-oriented Waterfront. Rounding up the usual suspects shouldn't prove too difficult for the police -- when a representative of a group styling itself Muslims Against Global Oppression called a local radio journalist to claim responsibility, the journalist is reported to have potentially recognized the caller's voice. It's that small a town...
That's what friends are for.[10] But even as we build a bridge to the 21st century,[11] it's hard to imagine a black, Hispanic or Asian journalist getting into the same kind of trouble and being able to call on that kind of support without being accused of pleading for special treatment because of race. If Barnicle were black and, say, Jesse Jackson had spoken up for him, it would have unleashed a torrent of complaints that affirmative action has led to the hiring of less-qualified minorities and a diminution in journalistic standards. That's what...