Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly proud of this award, given the circumstances under which it was earned. In Jerusalem senior foreign correspondent (and acting bureau chief) Johanna McGeary was visiting with journalist friends at 9 p.m. Israeli time when she heard the news. She raced to the bureau, making calls on her cell phone all the way. By the time she reached the office, she says, "everybody was mobilized...
...tendency to be "fierce" and "short" with her interlocutors, a woman who didn't "suffer fools gladly," a regular old crosspatch. They all recounted the rounded, well-traveled life she had led. (Before writing the first Mary Poppins book, she had been variously a dancer, a poet, a journalist, a theater critic and a Shakespearean actress.) Still, the implication that seemed to lurk behind the articles about Travers was that she hadn't really liked life or the world very much. In fact, interviews with Travers suggest little more than that she couldn't abide journalists and had little patience...
Much to the dismay of at least one journalist in search of sensationalism, this team has been characterized all season by spreading the wealth among all its players...
...peace is real. Given those unsatisfactory terms, Assad may have decided that it makes no difference whether Peres the peacemaker or Netanyahu the hard-liner is in office in Jerusalem. "Syrians were very hopeful that Peres would take a big step," says Ibrahim Hamidi, a Damascus-based journalist. "Either Peres couldn't do it or he didn't want to. He hasn't advanced the peace process." Assad appears ready to wait...
...worked with Tom for seven years and he's been a colleague for a lot longer than that," Kalb said. "He's a superb journalist. He's just very good at what he does...