Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paul Johnson is a British historian and journalist...
...Ward Just's new novel (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25) returns to his familiar territory of the nation's capitol in a story that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist in the early ?60s, writes from experience," says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But there is no master clef to this roman. Protagonist Axel Behl reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World...
...flaws of the human miracle are the diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon?s role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. "Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy," says TIME's John Elson. "Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book?s vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages...
...panel, which spoke before an audience of about 140, included a professor of religion, a journalist and a former cult victim counselor...
...feel like I need to know, so I call Arista, and after an extended game of "pass-the-journalist" I'm speaking with a dance music publicist named Danny. He's way too busy to talk--"It's 2 p.m. on a Wednesday!" he barks at me, as if I should understand what this means--but he does stay on the line long enough to confirm that the album has sold more than one million copies. "It's really not that complicated," Danny continues, "We just took the biggest hits of the year and put them...