Word: roberts
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...criminal investigator before he became a journalist in 1955, Robert Greene was relentless about uncovering corruption. As a reporter and an editor for Newsday, based on Long Island, N.Y., he was a formidable opponent of crooked businessmen and politicians and ultimately earned two Pulitzer prizes for his reporting on property scandals and heroin-trafficking. He later taught journalism and established a nonprofit group, Investigative Reporters and Editors, but it is his fieldwork that will continue to set the bar for tenacious and effective reporting. "He was not only respected," a former Suffolk County police commissioner told Newsday, "he was feared...
...This is the endgame of the endgame. Checkmate already happened on the 29th of March.' TENDAI BITI, secretary-general of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, saying it would not take part in a runoff election because its presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, beat President Robert Mugabe outright in the March contest...
...While many are worrying about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs.' ROBERT ZOELLICK, World Bank president, after President George W. Bush ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help ease soaring food prices...
...really wanted to understand the student experience and try to make it better in new ways, be creative, and also understand what was going on in the students’ lives,” said Robert N. Shapiro ’72, a close family friend and member of the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s alumni-elected governing board...
...guts,” one of the bodyguards said after the show. Uys responded in characteristic form: “Can I keep the guts?”“Elections & Erections” is similarly irreverent, lampooning everyone from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Nigerian president Robert Mugabe. “I want to offend everyone in the audience at least once,” says Uys. The comedic excess of his show is disarming, resisting categorization and thereby dispelling the viewer’s potential biases against outspoken activism. Uys mocks public figures across the ideological spectrum, forcing...