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...recently been featured in a number of national publications for his work in Washington D.C. as President Bill Clinton's youngest speechwriter. This summer, he quit the job to attend the Law School...
...moment when he would have to issue the order for U.S. troops to go in shooting, a tense weekend of negotiations was devoted to the possibility that strongman Raoul Cedras and the rest of the ruling Haitian military clique had finally got the message and were ready to quit. At the 11th hour, the President proved willing to talk...
...also to be admired for her tenacity in forcing the Times to yield to her demands to combine both motherhood and a career. Very few women quit a major metropolitan newspaper to have children and find themselves offered a posh spot on the op-ed page instead...
Meanwhile, the United Nations warned both sides to quit shelling each other at Sarajevo, or else face the possibility of NATO air strikes. Yesterday, the city saw the heaviest fighting in months between Serbs who targeted the center of town and Muslims who mounted an infantry attack outside the city...
...Carter quit the Weekly Mail and became a free-lance photojournalist -- an alluring but financially risky way of making a living, providing no job security, no health insurance and no death benefits. He eventually signed up with the Reuter news agency for a guarantee of roughly $2,000 a month and began to lay plans for covering his country's first multiracial elections in April. The next few weeks, however, would bring depression and self-doubt, only momentarily interrupted by triumph...