Word: journalisting
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...along this old ideological fault line that the journalist Steven R. Weisman has assembled the narrative of The Great Tax Wars (Simon & Schuster; 419 pages), an absorbing history of the income tax. Weisman monitors the argument--which continues today--from the time that Abraham Lincoln first pushed through Congress an unprecedented tax on income in 1862 to pay the Union's immense war expenses, to the early 1940s, when a far larger conflict turned America into a nation of more or less uncomplaining income tax payers...
Knoxville heads back to Beverly Hills to see his personal doctor, who diagnoses a mild concussion and doesn't balk at the filming of the five stitches he sews into the back of Knoxville's head. As Knoxville dizzily hobbles off, he turns around to say goodbye to the journalist who's been sharing the bloodbath of a day with him. Without a trace of irony, he says, "Take care of yourself...
...like grouping of Styrofoam pillars. It is 10 p.m., and she, along with 35 crew members, cameramen, dancers and friends, is in a cavernous Hong Kong studio shooting her second music video of the day. The session soured three hours earlier when her manager introduced her to a local journalist by calling her "fat. I keep telling her to lose weight." Now, with her self-esteem riding lower than her leather pants, everything Chen has been dreading for the past five days is coming true. She cannot remember all the moves to the dance that accompanies her fast...
...also said PSC plans to invite Robert Fisk, a journalist for The Independent of London, to speak to the Harvard-MIT community...
...that duty?the horror and suffering that would usually paralyze a bystander become objects of study and inquiry, details and incidents to be recounted so that the reader better comprehends what really happened. The criticism most often hurled at the profession?that it is parasitic?is mistaken. The journalist's task is to understand, and sometimes that means getting close enough to see the tears and hear the sobbing. The bombings in Bali were the kind of story we at TIME never want to cover, yet it is precisely this type of event that brings out the best...