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...posing a grave risk to American troops. Yet within those security limitations, the press's job is to find out what is actually going on (not just what officials say is going on), no matter whose cause it might or might not advance. "There's an irreconcilable conflict," says Marvin Kalb, director of Harvard's Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "The press has not only a right but a responsibility to press for as much information as possible. And it is the government's responsibility to give only that information it feels will not be injurious...
...never got a single piece of Grammy gold. Some of Grammy's greatest hitters are heavy-duty worthies (Aretha Franklin has copped 15, Stevie Wonder 17), but it's also true, as Marsh points out, that "no one thinks that the Grammys honor artistry. People like Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Spector have all been disrespected by the Grammys, and so people don't take the awards seriously...
...story. The public, however, does not appear to have much sympathy for that view -- at least not yet. "In a war, people are apt to feel that the press is being too pushy and that it ought to be less intrusive, more 'on the team,' " says Marvin Kalb, a former CBS and NBC diplomatic correspondent who heads the Barone Center at Harvard. "I think that's a perfectly natural human reaction." But if the war starts to take a troubling turn, another natural reaction may set in: a demand to know why more was not revealed sooner...
Sweetest Revenge for a Naysayer Marvin Roffman, a gambling-industry analyst, was fired by his spineless firm, Janney Montgomery Scott, after Donald Trump threatened to sue the firm because Roffman predicted the demise of the high roller's $1 billion Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Just eight months later, the Taj agreed to file for bankruptcy protection...
...MARVIN'S ROOM. This loopy, brooding story of family battle, by Scott McPherson, is directed for Hartford Stage by David Petrarca, whose mounting of the Chicago premiere established him as a talent to watch...