Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ceasar, 45, mobilizing the colonias is a lot like the teaching she did in Louisiana and Oklahoma as a Sister of Divine Providence. "We're only giving people the tools to act -- like learning to read," she explains. "We're teaching extraordinary things to ordinary people...
...retreats and briefings, EPISO's lieutenants get a full grounding in the Alinsky doctrine from the no-nonsense nun. She talks of the nature of power and how to "build community" and suggests they read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. More to the point are sessions on how to meet a city council member, register new voters and "leverage relationships." That is, put the screws on public officials...
...hope you have already read the letter from managing editor Henry Muller on the opening page of this issue. In it, he discusses the ideas behind the innovations you will notice as you read the magazine. Let me go one step further and describe some of the specific stories that illustrate these changes...
While reporters at the Times are eagerly snapping up early copies of Fit to Print, Rosenthal, who has received a six-figure advance to write his memoirs, says he has not read it: "From what I can tell, it's like walking into a mess in the street. You step in it; you try to wipe it from your foot." Ironically, some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden...
Critics complain that the third section makes the Journal cumbersome, while some advertisers are said to be concerned that the new format allows readers to discard sections they prefer not to read. But these arguments hardly seem valid. The format makes the previously scattershot Journal more reader friendly and attractive -- and that can't be bad for business...