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Silver-Plated Muzzle: JOE BIDEN Judiciary Committee hearings seldom get under way until the Delaware Democrat finishes showboating with witnesses as the TV cameras roll...
...ailing daughter. The details of his life are wonderfully exact: a bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while nice Daddy watches quietly...
That will not be easy. Japanese foreign policy, seldom clear and never bold, is now a shambles. In recent years Tokyo has navigated a cautious course that emphasized its commitment to the Western alliance, and to the United Nations as a forum for settling international disputes. But the Japanese began to chafe under Washington's domination as their economic clout seemed to entitle them to a more prominent voice in policymaking. And as American strength waned, the U.S. found itself increasingly resentful that its former enemy had profited so well from the lessons of the West...
Investigative reporter. The words conjure up grizzled newsmen in dark trench coats meeting at midnight with "Deep Throat" sources. As professional journalists know, such glamorous notions are seldom accurate. Yet for TIME correspondents Jonathan Beaty and Sam Gwynne, who together unearthed and wrote last month's story on the scandal engulfing the Bank of Credit & Commerce International and this week's special report on the B.C.C.I. as well, the reality of chasing the yarn was as thrilling as the best detective fiction...
...Seldom have the press and public been so starkly at odds about journalism's role. While reporters and editors gripe about press restrictions, pool coverage and a lack of information about the war, many Americans have just the opposite complaint. Far from giving us too little information, they are saying, the press is trying to give us too much. Reporters seem too pushy in press briefings, too insensitive to the need for secrecy, too intent on looking for bad news. Why, goes the common cry, is the press trying to undermine the war effort? What are they first -- journalists...