Word: journalists
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...Tina Turner mannequin still needed a hair tease, and Madonna's gold bustier had yet to be mounted. But James Henke, the chief curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, had a more pressing problem one day last week. Showing a journalist around the museum, he was stopped by a group of workers who were about to install a Jimi Hendrix guitar on the wall. Hendrix, who was left-handed, played right-handed guitars with the strings on upside down. But the guitar they were about to hang was a right-handed...
Which, perhaps, is a polite way of saying USA Gymnastics wants to avoid a repetition of the '92 Games, when spectators, sports columnists and even some coaches were appalled by the joyless intensity that pervaded the competition. It is also an indirect response to a book by San Francisco journalist Joan Ryan, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, that dwells on the least savory aspects of elite gymnastics. Ryan decries the sport's preference in recent years forprepubescent bodies and the subsequent eating disorders among many world-class gymnasts. She describes ruthless coaches who virtually starve their charges, athletes...
...Clark had graduated 16 years before. "I knew after a year or so that lawyering was not for me, and I dropped out," she explains. "Clark hung in." After working as an assistant press secretary for a New York state senator and then as a newspaper and free-lance journalist, she started with Time as a Los Angeles stringer in 1988. Pre-O.J., she contributed to eight cover stories and helped report on such events as the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake and the devastating brush fires of two years...
...Force's latest secret weapon, a dull gray propeller-driven craft converted from cargo service, looks as slow and chunky as a pelican. But Commando Solo could prove as important as any jet fighter or bomber in the infowars of the future. A TIME reporter, the first journalist allowed to tour the $70 million plane, found the fuselage stuffed with more electronics than a mallful of Radio Shacks: secure fax machines and computers, cassette decks, compact disc and VHS tape players, and powerful transmitters. This gear allows the plane's 11-man crew to jam a country...
Convicted Philadelphia cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist active in radical black politics, obtained an indefinite stay of execution so he can pursue an appeal. Abu-Jamal, whose claims of innocence have become an international cause celebre, maintains he was railroaded by the criminal-justice system because of his politics...