Word: niemans
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Harvard Crimson 23, Nieman Fellows 2 (soft ball...
President Bok has appointed four journalists and three faculty members to the committee which will select the 1981-82 American Nieman Fellows in journalism. The members of the committee, chaired by James C. Thomson, Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, are: Nathan Glazer professor of Education and Sociology: David Kraslow, publisher of the Miami News and a 1962 Nieman fellow: Patricia Nelson Limerick, assistant professor of History: Frieda W. Morris, midwest bureau chief of NBC News; Garry Orren '68, a polling expert and associate professor of Public Policy: George Wilson, publisher of the Concord Monitor and William Woestendiek, executive editor...
Between his time at the News and his second stint at the Times, Lewis won a Nieman fellowship and spent a year at Harvard Law School, preparing for his new assignment. He speaks with great fondness about this year, and continues his relationship with the Law School by teaching a course there every year entitled "The Constitution and the Press...
...judgment whether he is right or wrong," Zhao argues. "I never doubted that things would change," he says, "because it was so ridiculous, so silly, so unreasonable..." His words reflect what one friend calls Zhao's "extreme understanding" and "inner faith." Tolerance let Zhao endure, says Masayuki Ikeda, a Nieman fellow and friend. "Hardship makes...
...life. "Agricultural is hard, back-breaking work," he recalls. "When you pull a handcart of grain mired in mud, it takes a lot of willpower. It gave me a sense of what peasants do." The experience seems to have given Zhao what James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, calls "the languid strength of a bamboo or willow--flexible though tough at the core." It is the toughness that Zhao shows today, as he shakes his head and sighs, "Nothing can get me scared...