Word: question
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resolution's sponsors, five of whom are members of the council's Executive Board, stressed the importance of putting the question to the students...
...deadbeat dads are replacing welfare queens as the favorite social villains, Brott wonders, perhaps legitimately, if fathers are a new endangered species. Of men who fail to pay child support, he and Parke write, "But while the image of uncaring, selfish, abandoning men dominate[s] the media, one question remains unexplored: Have these men really run away from their families or are they being chased away?" The two describe the plight of Lloyd R., a divorced father of two who fell behind in support payments when he broke his leg and was forced onto workers' comp. When Lloyd got back...
...reporter--particularly one with an international following and a Nobel Prize. That at least has been the experience of Cambio, a Colombian newsweekly whose newsstand sales have doubled since novelist GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ bought the flagging magazine and joined its reporting staff. Undercover assignments are out of the question, but the author, who worked at a newspaper before becoming a novelist, insists on doing his own legwork and recently covered peace talks between the government and rebels. "Journalism is the only trade I like," he told the New York Times. Easy for him to say. World leaders take his calls...
...notion: to incorporate his meetings with dozens of people into a monologue. "All his plays are forms of moral discourse in a way," says Richard Eyre, who has directed most of Hare's work over the past 30 years. "How do you live your life, that's really the question, isn't it?" Via Dolorosa emerges naturally from an earlier play about the Church of England, Racing Demon, and also from a bold 1996 lecture Hare gave at Westminster Abbey called "When Shall We Live?" about the bankruptcy of religious belief. From writing political plays that verge on the lecture...
...permission before talking to the press. The chief restriction placed on her was that she was not supposed to talk about the prosecutor's treatment of her, which is the subject of an investigation. Duffy says, "The good thing about Monica is that she answers nearly every question. But that's her problem...