Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...observed the battle as a Crimson journalist--journalism provided a safe haven for some of us unwilling to choose among the rigid ideologies of Harvard's myriad anti-war factions...
...Jonathan Krakauer, a journalist covering the climb for Outside magazine, stood at the top of the world, he noticed something ominous: clouds were approaching from the valley below. Within two hours they had arrived and metastasized into a monster: shrieking winds blew sheets of snow horizontally at 65 knots. A "whiteout" dropped visibility to zero, and wind chill plunged to -140[degrees] F. "It was chaos up there," says Krakauer. "The storm was like a hurricane, only it had a triple-digit wind chill. You don't have your oxygen on, you're out of breath, you can't think...
...tape, obtained by a Chicago TV journalist, is the third in a series of recent embarrassments for the corrections department. Last August a drug conspiracy was traced to an inmate at another facility; earlier this month, several guards at a women's prison were dismissed for having sex with inmates. Now legislators are demanding an end to the "culture of complicity" that has been allowed to flourish between prison guards and Illinois' 38,000 inmates. "This is the type of spark that is required to get something going," says Illinois state representative Peter Roskam. "My hunch is there...
...veteran Moscow reporter YURI ZARAKHOVICH followed Yeltsin around the country while Washington correspondent JAMES CARNEY, returning to his old posting in Russia, tracked Zyuganov. Back in Moscow, correspondent SALLY DONNELLY and stringer CONSTANCE RICHARDS filed background reports, picture editor MARK RYKOFF directed a team of 10 photographers and Polish journalist RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI, a longtime Soviet watcher, returned to a much changed Moscow to take the city's pulse. Coordinating operations was Moscow bureau chief JOHN KOHAN, who drew on eight years' experience in Russia to write an essay about whether democracy will ever be possible there...
Spike Lee and Mike Leigh, Gong Li and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all on the Riviera to peddle their films at dozens of press conferences and at luncheon interviews. Gong Li fared better at a posh dinner for her film Temptress Moon; her tablemate was not some grubby journalist but the genial dauphin of nearby Monaco. It was the first time in nine years that Grace Kelly's son had visited the festival, lured by Temptress Moon's elegant producer Hsu Feng, who thus provided a new answer to the old question: How do you get Prince Albert into Cannes...