Word: newsweek
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Last year, Newsweek published a cover story titled "Brothers," which chronicled the reunion of 12 black men who grew up together in the Robert Taylor Homes. In 1962, when it opened, the housing project was a highly-touted social experiment, and a real opportunity for low-income Black families--a way out of the slums and tenements controlled by greedy white landlords. Brothers is the expanded, book-length account of the lives of these 12 men, and tells their compelling stories with a depth that was missing in the otherwise excellent article...
Sylvester Monroe '73, the White House correspondent for Newsweek's Washington Bureau, was returing to find out what had happened to the friends who started out life in the projects with him, and how they had survived the deterioration of one of the most dangerous and depressed urban areas in the world. The Robert Taylor Homes have 19,000 official residents, although many more people than that live there unofficially, causing desperate overcrowding. Those 19,000 comprise less than one-half of 1 percent of Chicago's population. An average of 10 percent of the city's armed robberies, assaults...
...Newsweek said a poll taken immediately after the debate found that 42 percent of the voters who watched on television said Dukakis did a better job while 41 percent said Bush outperformed his rival...
George Will, the Newsweek columnist and ABC News commentator predicted that "liberalism" will be the key issue during the fall campaign. The GOP will continue to charge that Dukakis is a liberal. But will it work? "It's true. Whether or not it'll work or not, I don't know," he said...
When journalism's brightest luminaries gathered at a black-tie dinner last month to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, there was one conspicuous absence: the school's dean. The university had been unable to fill that prominent post ever since former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott resigned two years ago. Last week Columbia President Michael Sovern finally announced a successor: Joan Konner, 57, a veteran television-documentary producer and a Columbia trustee since 1978. "She's been a very serious possibility from the beginning," said Sovern. "We didn't want anyone...