Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks, these are hosts of radio call-in shows. Such programs, of course, have long served as a sort of national party line, a place where average citizens can rant, in blissful anonymity, about everything from the local baseball team's losing streak to the Bush Administration's arms policy. The hosts are often loud and abrasive, with an opinion for every issue and a put-down for every adversary. But in the past few months, a clutch of conversationalists has crossed the line from simply mouthing off to orchestrating nationwide political protests...
Siegel, who is comparatively mild-mannered as talk hosts go, joined KING last November. He has railed against local police for laxity in the antidrug war and against Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Lorenzo (he joined a picket line during the current Eastern strike). Soon he hopes to stir passions over the savings and loan bailout. "I'm not a Pied Piper," he says, "but I do believe in what...
Edwards is not alone in his concerns. Several talk hosts have opted out of the Exxon boycott ("We felt that cutting up credit cards hurts the local guys running the gas station," says Steve Cochran, of Minneapolis' KDWB-FM). Others oppose efforts to organize radio hosts nationwide. "All the bad it can do outweighs the good it can do," says talk-show veteran Larry King. A number of prominent talk hosts are staying away from the convention being organized by Jerry Williams, and the management of New York City's WABC-AM has forbidden its employees to attend. "We feel...
Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong listened, stern-faced, as a student questioner bore down on him and other local officials about the nepotism and corruption that now pervade the Chinese bureaucracy. As television viewers at home watched intently, Chen, an unpopular hard-liner, seized the microphone and answered defensively. "I'm a grade-twelve cadre with a monthly income slightly over 300 yuan (($80))," he protested. "None of my family members are high-ranking officials. My son is a junior cadre in the Beijing civil affairs bureau, and my daughter-in-law is an ordinary clerk...
...pastoral innocence (Coming of Age in Samoa) and Derek Freeman's revisionist account of violence and rape (Margaret Mead and Samoa -- The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth). "Being bilingual and bicultural doesn't mean you have to be schizophrenic," says Bernie Oordt, who taught at a local high school for twelve years. "As long as you have a basic bedrock, a strong system of values, you should be big enough to incorporate both cultures. And I think these people have a very sound sense of who they are, tied up with family and community...