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...Bomb. In a way, I've been reporting this story for decades." In the interim, though, Ted made his mark in journalism. He joined TIME in 1987 after serving eight years on the investigative staff at the Washington Post, where his work won a Pulitzer nomination, a George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Worth Bingham Prize. Since bringing his energies to TIME, he has chronicled the illegal trade in elephant ivory, brought attention to the endangered spotted owl, documented corruption in college basketball and scrutinized the plight of West Virginia coal miners...
...cases be put to good use. This assumes a lot. Many inner-city schools labor under appalling conditions that produce poor education and endless disciplinary problems. "More of the same isn't any better if the same isn't good enough to begin with," says Norman Morgan, whose Polk County, N.C., school board in 1985 stopped an experimental program that had suddenly lifted the school year from 180 days to 200. Lockett principal Dunn agrees, "The simple fact of more time spent on tasks does not change anything. It must be coupled with something extra...
...threatening in its originality. Moreover, the times were right for it. Everyone was complaining that there were too few good roles for women in American movies -- especially roles that permitted their characters to make their own decisions, control their own destiny. In fact, according to Mimi Polk, Thelma & Louise's producer, the movie did not "pitch well" to studio executives: "The script was full of subtlety that was lost in a two-sentence description." Polk feels, as well, that had she and her partner, Ridley Scott, proposed two male stars in the lead, they could have got a budget heftier...
...POLK CONSPIRACY by Kati Marton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). The former newswoman and wife of TV anchor Peter Jennings uncovers new information about the 1948 murder of CBS journalist George Polk in Salonika bay, Greece -- and fresh evidence of a cover-up by the Greek and U.S. governments...
Royalists in general and Tsaldaris in particular had the motives to murder Polk. It is possible they did not kill him. But they did attempt to frame the communists. Ineptly and tirelessly, the descendants of Socrates neglected to ask fundamental questions. Why, for example, would the reds silence an American journalist who not only made their enemies squirm but could also be used to report their side of the war? Under increasing pressure, the police eventually provided a scapegoat. A confession was tortured out of him; he was found guilty of complicity in Polk's death and given a life...