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...battle with the federal bureaucracy. Says Jackson: "I understood the hurdles that veterans face when their fears, and sometimes even their symptoms, aren't enough to get them satisfactory answers." The story brought some TIME reporters face to face with the generational ironies of the war. Correspondent Jeff Melvoin talked with a Navy veteran in Los Angeles who was his own age, 28: "I realized that at the same time I was flying to Harvard for my freshman year, he was on a ship steaming for Viet Nam." Atlanta Correspondent Anne Constable, who demonstrated against...
...dangers of abuse. For this week's cover story on cocaine, the most deceptive and expensive of drugs, TIME sent a team of correspondents to measure its burgeoning popularity across the country. Jonathan Beaty interviewed sources in Washington, D.C., New Mexico and Southern California, while Jeff Melvoin traveled in New England, Florida and Colorado, and Steven Holmes covered Northern California and the Midwest. Correspondent Robert L. Goldstein spoke with movie celebrities in Los Angeles and Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris talked to dancers and psychiatrists in New York City. Says Beaty...
Though the illegal status of cocaine meant keeping the names of many sources confidential, Melvoin was surprised at the willingness of users to talk about their experiences with the drug. Says he: "The fact that they were so relaxed with a reporter is an indication of how casual cocaine use has become." But Beaty found that some cocaine dealers in Los Angeles were considerably more cautious: "It was the first time I had been in an attorney's office with semiautomatic weapons leaned up against the wall. It is safe to say that the paranoia level was high...
Reported by Jonathan Beaty, Steven Holmes and Jeff Melvoin, with U.S. bureaus...
...much of the Southeast. Like most examples in Harvard's celebrated case-study method, Waffle House does not simply present some problem to be solved. Instead, the goal here is to assess the critical details in what makes a business a success-or a failure. TIME Correspondent Jeff Melvoin reports...