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...down-home flavor virtually devoid of literary flourishes and serves a predominantly Midwest and Sunbelt audience. Founded as a daily national newspaper in 1926 by David Lawrence, a syndicated columnist, it evolved into its present format after World War II. In contrast to TIME (U.S. circ. 4.6 million) and Newsweek (U.S. circ. 3 million), U.S. News downplays reportage of a week's events in favor of analysis of their impact on readers and gives scant, though increasing, attention to technology, culture and lifestyles...
...Douglas Stanglin--Eastern European correspondent for Newsweek...
Seven people were killed, including Linda Frazier, 38, an American journalist who worked for an English-language newspaper in San Jose. Among the 28 injured was Pastora, who suffered first-and second-degree burns on his face and shrapnel wounds in his legs. Seriously hurt was Susan Morgan, a Newsweek stringer whose legs and arms were fractured. Some could crawl out of the building, but others lay moaning in the wreckage for nearly an hour before being pulled out. Two hours passed before a doctor and two nurses arrived...
...Kenneth Auchincloss, now the managing editor of Newsweek, Harvard infused its students with "a fierce independence." Guido Goldman, the director of Harvard's Center for European Studies, recalls "the pluralism of the experience." Peter Brooks, a professor of French and comparative literature at Yale, remembers "that certain elegance." Robert Watkins III, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., recalls alliteratively, "the supreme sense of self-confidence." And Missouri-born Perry Smith, then the president of the Lampoon and now an Episcopal priest, sums up his college experiences as if they were part of a fable: "Little midwestern boy came and made good...
...discount the risks he takes. "I've had close calls on "almost every assignment, and was wounded by a land mine in El Salvador in 1982," he says. "After a while, you tend not to think about the danger. But when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing good journalism where...