Word: notebook
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...reason to resist subpoenas. More often they can't stand the political heat, legal expense or logistical difficulty of having staff tied up in court. Harry Harris, a 26-year veteran of the Oakland Tribune, fought for a while but was eventually advised by Tribune lawyers to show his notebook in a murder case to a judge in chambers. He says, "I really have been affected by it. When you go into an interview, you say, 'Look, what you say is between you and me, and what I don't use, the public doesn't know about.' " That...
This does not mean that Thelma & Louise is or was ever meant to be a sweet dream, a comfortable, comforting movie like, say, City Slickers. "Screenplay idea," jotted Callie Khouri in her notebook one day in 1987: "Two women go on a crime spree." Khouri, whose first screenplay this is, had the notion that if a female couple were somehow forced by circumstances to take up the outlaw life, they would, under the suspenseful impress of life on the lam, undergo the same kind of bonding process -- sweet, funny, appealing -- that male protagonists customarily experience in this kind of movie...
...World War II began, Albert Camus wrote in his notebook: "The reign of beasts has begun." In the past year or two, the reign of beasts seemed to end, in some places anyway: brilliant days, miraculous remissions. But as Jung thought, different people inhabit different centuries. There are many centuries still loose in the world today, banging against one another. The war in the gulf was in part a collision of different centuries and the cultural assumptions that those centuries carry with them. Camus's beasts are still wandering around in the desert and in the sometimes fierce nationalisms reawakening...
...interest of our readers' academic wellbeing, Reporters" Notebook and Required Reading do not appear in this reading period edition of News in Review. We figured you have enough required reading to do on your own, and we wouldn't want to spoil...
Items in the Reporters' Notebook are submitted by Crimson reporters and are edited by Brian R. Hecht