Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action and wrote his own book, A Monk Swimming, also a best seller. Now Alphie, a third brother who stayed with his mother in Ireland when his elder brothers left for America, has an agent and is shopping his version of events around town, eager to report what few details of the family's hardscrabble upbringing remain undocumented. It may be a crowded McCourt season. Frank's sequel, 'Tis, is one of the most anticipated books of the fall, and Malachy has a contract for his own follow-up. Insatiable fans of the literary clan might want to save room...
Kids at V.B.S. had "the ultimate experience with Jesus," during which they learned portions of the Psalms and made fabulous and bizarre craft creations. (The "shepherd on a stick" was my favorite.) I am happy to report that I observed incidents not only of Bible-verse spouting but also of sharing and Golden-Ruling galore. Christine Kirkpatrick, 8, told me she understood Psalm 139: 9-10, "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me fast." She explained...
...September 1997. George profiled entertainers; it gave bylines to headline-grabbing political figures like Alfonse D'Amato; it asked Claire Danes and Denis Leary what they would do if they were President. Yet it also hired noted journalists and essayists to write long, earnest pieces, like a recent report on the environmental legacy of the pork industry. Even the magazine's political writing, however, has tended to emphasize personality over issues. While George may have been correct in identifying politicians as celebrities, that trend was hardly a blessing for political discourse...
...Haitians were dancing in the streets after U.S. troops restored democracy. Not anymore. Political squabbling has led to government paralysis, and Haiti's PRESIDENT RENE PREVAL suspended Parliament in January and rules by decree. Although donor countries pledged more than $1 billion in aid, the latest U.N. report notes that $570 million still hasn't been handed over because Haiti lacks the ministerial staff to draft programs for using the money. The report points out that 4% of Haiti's population still owns 66% of the country's resources, and annual income averages $250 per person, compared with...
...Some members of the Harvard community are being treated unfairly," said the letter, which urged people to report casual labor abuses to the union. "At least a small number of those are facing real economic hardship. We can not look the other way without perpetuating the problem of working poverty...