Word: leviton
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...victims. "They want the world to know their children are more than statistics," Kramer explained. The sister of one victim told Chicago's Beth Austin that although her husband was a member of the National Rifle Association, she thought TIME's project "could save some lives." Atlanta stringer Joyce Leviton found that some relatives "wanted to talk for long periods, as if explaining to a stranger would help whatever had gone wrong." Pursuing a picture of a gang victim in Harlem, stringer John McDonald was "repeatedly warned that I was within earshot of the perpetrators of the shooting...
...TIME parents at work. Nation Head Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy often fields homework calls on the job from Daughter Alexandra. TIME's Olivia Stewart drives from her San Francisco office to Oakland during lunch to ferry her daughter from summer school to the afternoon sitter. Says Atlanta Reporter Joyce Leviton: "These working mothers are the heroines of our time." Nadasdy rejects the supermom tag. "My success depends on my family's support and love," she says. Mothers are not alone in doing double duty. Staff Writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt regularly cooks breakfast for his two-year-old daughter Elizabeth, while...
Their responses were blunt. As Atlanta Bureau Reporter Joyce Leviton discovered, "Almost every sexually active young person I spoke with either has the disease or knows someone who has it." Los Angeles Bureau Reporter Cheryl Crooks found that "in talking with herpes sufferers, I realized how little accurate medical information they had about their own disease." Part of the herpes problem today is that discussion of the phenomenon sometimes seems almost as off-putting as the disease itself. A TIME reporter in the South had to fight the reluctance of conservative Western Union operators in Mississippi to transmit her reports...
...reporting opposing viewpoints that are equally idealistic and heartfelt. Says Los Angeles Correspondent Diane Coutu: "Perhaps more than any other story, this one reminded me that the most difficult moral choices are seldom ones between good and evil, but almost always between good and the lesser good." Joyce Leviton interviewed pro-choice activists in Atlanta and experienced one of the many ironies in the abortion fight: during a call to the vice president of the Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, she found herself listening to the cooing of the pro-abortion leader's nine-month-old daughter. Making...
...midweek she set off for Plains, Ga., to where the President's brother had also headed. She almost caught him. "Alas," McGeary reports, "he ate breakfast at his regular table at the Best Western motel in nearby Americus, but the sight of a familiar TIME photographer, Jay Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy's gas station in Plains and his house 20 miles out of town, where she found a pickup truck parked across the driveway to block...