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Past Nieman fellows give the program very high marks. Terry Tang, a 1992 Nieman fellow and editorial writer for the Seattle Times, said he considers it "the most precious commodity in a busy career--time to read books missed in college and to consider how better to do my job," according to the foundation's worldwideWeb site...
Amos, 34, has always been tough to figure. In 1992, when she entered the national music scene, her intensely personal style of piano rock was derided in some alternative-rock circles as precious. Today her brazen sexual persona seems a bit oversize to fit in with the Lilith Fair set ("I like a little testosterone," she says, explaining why she won't play the all-female Lilith scene). Still, she's found her own platinum niche. Her debut album, Little Earthquakes (1992), which features songs about sexual awakening, sold more than a million copies; her last, Boys for Pele...
...about the books. All we need to say is "so what did you make of this week's reading," and people are frantically waving about underlined passages, drawing diagrams on the board and trying desperately to get Habermas on the phone. For teaching fellows a Loud Section is a precious gift. We just show up for class, then wait for the guys at the CUE Guide to give us a call...
Before he went, according to documents from Representative Dan Burton's government-oversight committee, Hubbell took in more than $100,000 in gifts to family trust funds and $600,000 in "work" for which precious little work was done. He was busy at the time, however, resisting pressure from prosecutors to divulge any Whitewater secrets of the Clintons. Now Burton's investigators have the calendar entries, phone records and notes that make up a blueprint for the extraordinary job search that took place as Hubbell remained silent. But is it enough...
White skin in this country is still the most precious of social heirlooms, one which is, by most, unquestionably accepted. But when it comes to the darker side of their inheritance, rhetoric changes to "not me," "not my fault," "not my problem...