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Born in New York City and raised in Japan, Gibney has been in Asia since the early '80s, covering the region for Newsweek until last year. Last week he was filing reports on Vietnam to our offices in New York as he lay on his bed, suffering from a couple of herniated disks. (To work on his computer, says Asia editor Don Morrison, Gibney "had weights and pulleys rigged up.") The fact that he roams from a base in Vietnam, says Gibney, typifies today's mercurial, surprising Asia. "Five years ago, the story here was coups and authoritarianism...
Upon Rudenstine's return, for example, the president ended up on the cover of Newsweek as a poster-child for exhaustion...
...eyes alight, somewhere in the "Real world," on a Harvard name: Marjorie Garber on the Op-Ed page of The Boston Globe, Robert Reich telling all on Oprah, Jill McCorkle's latest novel staring out from B. Dalton's or Neil's "exausted" mug on the cover of Newsweek. So it was with a feeling of excitement that I headed over to the Hasty Pudding Theatre to watch Demons, the new play by my former professor of English 163 (and the artistic director of the A.R.T.), Robert Brustein...
...allegations against Fuhrman, first reported in the New Yorker and Newsweek last summer, consist mainly of comments he made to psychiatrists when he was suing the city to receive permanent disability pay owing to job-related stress. Discussing rage and depression he claimed to be experiencing while dealing with violent gang members and other "slimes and assholes," Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang...
...last week's Newsweek, there is one anecdote which defines Jordan's baseball misadventures. With his Birhimgham Barons playing the Memphis Chicks-Jordan came to the plate with two down in the ninth and the game on the line...