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Altering facts to achieve a dramatic narrative is a legacy of the New Journalism, which was popularized in magazines and books in the 1960s and '70s and has been increasingly criticized. New Journalists may merge characters or invent scenes. They sometimes reconstruct sequences based on interviews with third parties...
Captain Sauer, who diverted the Zawisza Czarny from the race, arrived on the scene four hours later. He found only eight mates of the Marques alive to tell the tale. A ninth was rescued by another ship. It seems doubtful that any trace of the others will turn up; a...
The estate is the legacy of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, a member of one of Hawaii's royal families, who died in 1884.
Verba is philosophical about the legacy he leaves to undergraduate education. As a social scientist, he says he understands that the solutions are not going to be immediate or perfect. "Any reform decays and is oversold at the beginning," he says. "You need, as Mao said, constant vigilance to maintain...
The rule changes in study outside Harvard are among those which Verba ranks as his most important legacy. Under the old rules, students had to take at least half of their outside courses for their concentration and departments had to approve the course of study. Under the new rules passed...