Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this came together beautifully because of an unexpected coincidence. As nearly every journalist in the English-speaking world has already pointed out, it just so happened that Tiger won the Masters almost fifty years to the day after Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play Major League Baseball...
...interviewed for the television documentary, "Born That Way?" (The Learning Channel) put it very explicitly. An Arizona journalist who had been writing anti-gay editorials for many years, he changed his mind after reading some scientific articles about homosexuality...
When Susan Shand, a journalist in Washington, needed wine for a dinner party she was hosting, she headed for the store to buy her favorite brand: Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Later that evening, however, she discovered that she had bought Turning Leaf, a new Gallo wine, instead. "I looked like an idiot," she recalls...
Shorto, a journalist, skillfully lays out the anomalies, allusions and stylistic shifts that have caused a wide spectrum of scholars to see the Gospels less as factual truth than as a product of faith and early Christian politics. He also examines the recent archaeological finds that revved the debate. Detouring occasionally (describing, for instance, a DNA study of the goats whose parched skins were used for the Dead Sea Scrolls), he picks and chooses among the available theories to arrive at a kind of aggregate anti-Gospel...
Barich, a journalist who has written memorably about horse racing (Laughing in the Hills) and the Golden State (Big Dreams), produces a lot of heat as he cuts across generations and cultures. But Carson Valley is not just another brand of romantic plonk. Barich is a social realist with a fine feel for the similarities between agriculture and love. Both require risk and constant cultivation with no guarantee of success. That is not lost on Arthur and Anna Torelli, who have gone through divorces and are skittish about new commitments. Added to the mix are elements of lonely-guy touchiness...