Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came up against discrimination and were beaten down. Linda McVeigh Mathews, a distinguished journalist, resigned from a newspaper when her editors would not allow her to cover the same foreign beat as her journalist husband, and has just left another paper after being "emotionally battered" by her boss. In a variety of corporations Marilyn Wilt "encountered the glass ceiling again and again" and quit the business world to "empower" herself...
...Year and the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1949, and he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility--but he also retained his humanity. Late in his career he wrote an eloquently spare letter to a white New Orleans journalist who had abused him in print: "I wish you could comprehend how unfair and un-American it is for the accident of birth to make such a difference...
...true Hollywood style, opposites attract and Marcy meets her match in Shawn (Jay Sanders) whom she at first suspects of bestiality (he's very affectionate with his dog). It's a meeting of working automaton in gray business attire and stiletto heels with a principled, home town, ex-journalist who "took the easy way out" to do the right thing...
...point he was thinking "pretty seriously" about being an investigative journalist, and he researched and wrote an article about the release of Kuomintang officers from Hong Kong prisoner-of-war camps...
...person, or even news organization, could possibly check it all," says AllPolitics correspondent Tom Moore. "But the Justice Department has the tapes. The congressional committees have the tapes. And one of the great things about this country is that as a journalist, there's always an enemy willing to do your leg-work...