Word: journalists
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...only through his books but in the letters and diaries that make up the Jack Fingleton Papers, stored in 27 boxes at the State Library of New South Wales. These documents, which include chummy correspondence with several Australian Prime Ministers, were a boon for Fingleton's biographer, Sydney journalist Greg Growden, who's written a book that would have Bradman, topical again in the centenary of his birth, turning in his grave...
...French journalist and philosopher (apparently still at least a part-time profession in the 21st century) Levy is in full finger-wagging mode in this latest polemic. Unlike the grounded, tangible arguments of 2006's excellent American Vertigo--in which he roamed the U.S. ŕ la Tocqueville and painted a portrait of a nation both majestic and mad--there's an intellectual ranginess to Dark Times that makes it difficult to pin down. The object of Levy's ire is the left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans...
...current brouhaha surrounding Sarah Palin's entry into the White House race. However, by the final sentence I was wondering where you had dug up this misogynist ranter who also believes that all Alaskans are leeches and not "real Americans." I am going to guess that he is journalist who lives, or has lived, in Washington. Sarah has really got to those ol' boys. You go, girl! B. J. O'Byrne, MEATH, IRELAND...
...ranked 19th, with a score of less than nine hundred. Payack said that colleges and universities have cultivated brand names that carry strong connotations among the general public. “Harvard is a brand name,” said Alex S. Jones, a former New York Times journalist who is the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Policy. “It’s the oldest and best known university in the United States.” Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Michael C. Winerip ’74 said in an interview that...
...enough—give me more identities,” said Ugresic, whose collection of essays “Nobody’s Home” was recently translated into English. Svetlana Boym, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature, introduced Ugresicc as a brave female journalist, writer, and intellectual who, “through humor, through playful writing, offers critical commentary on Croatian nationalism.” In 1991, the dismal conditions of war-torn Yugoslavia motivated Ugresic, a native of that country,c to write critical pieces on the futility and criminality...