Word: kalb
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...active seniors' environment and proximity to their daughter that enticed Mitchell and Norma Gattas to relocate from De Kalb, Ill., to Crest Hill, Ill., about an hour away. In September they moved into a one-story single-family home in a community for residents 55 and older called Carillon Lakes. The Gattas now live just 15 minutes away from their daughter, son-in-law and four-year-old granddaughter, whom they see almost every day. "Who needs Florida or Arizona?" says Norma, 71, a retired accounting assistant. "We can see our daughter any time we want, and we have every...
...Marvin Kalb, author of the book “One Scandalous Story,” an expose of the media’s reaction to the first ten days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, began the discussion by telling a story about how he bumped into “a woman with stunning legs” who was on her way up to see President John F. Kennedy ’40 at the Carlisle Hotel in New York City...
...Kalb said he felt then, and still believes now, that this was not a news story and that the current constant stream of negative reporting about politicians’ personal lives has contributed to the public’s mistrust of the government and inspired the notion the politicians are by nature corrupt...
...Sinai in Washington, D.C., a 1,500-household Reform synagogue that has been called the nation’s most powerful congregation—its members include “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, New York Times bureau chief Michael Oreskes and Harvard’s Marvin Kalb, executive director of the Shorenstein Center for Press and Public Policy’s Washington office...
...MONICA, ALL THE TIME: Who can forget those splendid days in 1998, when L?Affaire Lewinsky first broke? Not Marvin Kalb, the director of the Washington office of Harvard?s Shorestein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy. Kalb is still scolding about Zippergate coverage in "One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism" (Free Press; October). According to PW, "The problem, Kalb finds, is that the corporate concentration of ownership of news pushes the bottom line above all else. And with the proliferation of news outlets, especially in cable TV, reporters must titillate rather than...