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After hearing Oliver North's testimony, Newsweek decided yes. North had justified the Administration's widespread deception of Congress by claiming that members often leaked sensitive information. When pressed for examples, he cited stories before the 1986 U.S. raid on Libya and ones detailing the 1985 interception of an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro. That prompted Newsweek to disclose one of the sources for its October 1985 cover story on the Achille Lauro. "Details of the interception," it noted, "were leaked by none other than North himself...
Much of the credit belongs to de Borchgrave, 60, a Newsweek foreign correspondent for 29 years before joining the Times in 1985. Sometimes de Borchgrave calls a wrong shot (a Times exclusive that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi had fled to Yemen remained exactly that: an exclusive), but overall, the editor rates highly with his staff. "He's not an intellectual genius, but he's incredibly passionate and energetic," says David Brooks, who recently left the Times for the Wall Street Journal...
...convulsions over Andrew Wyeth. The question stands. Never in the history of American art had a group of paintings been so fluffily hyped. Rarely in the history of cultural journalism had magazines and newspapers that one might have expected to be fairly hard-nosed about such matters -- TIME, Newsweek, the New York Times and so on across the nation -- made so much of so little...
...disclosure of these affairs -- especially the reports of Kennedy's many sexual flings, including one with a woman linked to Mafia figures -- helped bring about the new climate. "The rules have certainly changed," says Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who covered Kennedy as a reporter and editor for Newsweek and became a good friend. "You couldn't get away with that...
Black representation in student bodies has fallen from a peak of 7.7 percent a decade ago to 5.3 percent today, according to figures published by Newsweek...