Word: niemans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment in search of a memory of Cambridge in the late '40s. They use more mathematics in economics classes, and the noise in the Square is much louder. And Zhao is no longer studying for a degree. As a member of this year's class at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the first fellow from the People's Republic, he's come to Harvard for a crash course in the modern world...
...journalist who decides to spend a year as a Nieman--one of a select group whom Harvard supports for a year of education and general socializing--goes through a reeducation process of sorts. Away from the frenetic pace of the newsroom--and not permitted to engage in commercial work--the fellow studies a field that he is interested in and that might some day help his own career. For Zhao, whose work includes editing a monthly periodical of translations from the Western press (circulated to a limited number of Chinese officials) and writing a column about the current scene...
Marlette came to Harvard this year as the first political cartoonist ever to be granted a Nieman Fellowship. Now the staff political cartoonist for the Charlotte Observer--a respected and liberal (at least for the South) daily--Marlette grew up in the South, in places like Greensboro, N.C., where he was born, and Laurel, Miss., where he did most of his growing up. And it was in the small towns of the South that Marlette learned the values that provide the subtext for his cartoons: the idea that the Constitution and the Sermon on the Mount amount to more than...
Others suggested more moderate ac- tions, and James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundation, said that further economic sanctions on the Soviet Union could create severe hardships on the Soviet people. "But the security of the Eastern Bloc is more important than other concerns," Thomson added...
Jinglun Zhao, a Nieman Fellow from China, said the trial "implies the negation of the Cultural Revolution," adding, "It certainly will implicate the Chairman...