Word: journals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story of Roswell Senator Rod Adair. Adair is known as a conservative Republican. Just days before Lobby Day, Adair voted against the immigrant education bill in committee. But after meeting with a group of students from his area, Adair switched his vote. Adair told the Albuquerque Journal, immediately after Lobby Day, “My own constituents convinced...
...suffered, usually in silence and secrecy, from chronic and painful diseases. George Washington had a giant benign tumor in his leg and was the victim of rheumatism and repeated pneumonia. Andrew Jackson, famous for his stamina and courage, was described in a contemporary article in the Boston Medical School Journal as "a tottering scarecrow in deadly agony," a man in whom "the malaria, the dysentery, the osteomyelitis and the bronchiectasis were going on, and on, and on." But Jackson continued to lead the nation with authority...
Some editors, however, still treat the paper as a leprous intruder. "It's not our kind of journalism," says James Greenfield, an assistant managing editor of the New York Times. Observes Milwaukee Journal Editor Sig Gissler: "The paper tries to appeal to younger readers who might have a shorter attention span...
...over the next two years, the paper will not be able to charge the higher advertising rates that are needed to break into the black. (A full-page, four-color ad now costs $31,000, compared with $75,000 for a black-and-white page in the Wall Street Journal.) "The challenge facing USA Today is to get the circulation to 2 million or above," says John Morton, a newspaper analyst at Lynch, Jones & Ryan, a securities firm in Washington. "Gannett has established there is a market for the paper. Now the question is, is it going...
...work traversed the history of his century. In the '30s, as a student at the University of Chicago, he wrote for a local Socialist journal,the Soapbox; in the '40s, he was on the fringes of theleftish Partisan Review crowd. Two decades later, he found himself at odds with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous émigré intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet. In the late '80s, when the culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition...