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...ultimately, about the role of the press today. McCarthy and the Press repeatedly faults the vast majority of journalists for failing to add "news analysis"--an organized presentation of relevant facts or ideas--to their mechanical reporting of McCarthy's accusations, and he argues that most journalists displayed a singular lack of curiosity during McCarthy's first years of invective. They failed, for example, even to find out the identities of those card-carrying Communists. Bayley also highlights distortedly melodramatic performances of the media, points out that many headlines and broadcasted leads exaggerated McCarthy's charges; Senate to Probe Department...
...served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, deputy party leader and president of the European Commission, Williams has some disadvantages. Although celebrated for her eloquence, sincerity and thoughtfulness, critics fault her for a reluctance to make tough decisions and for her helter-skelter ways. But she has one singular advantage over Jenkins. Before the leadership decision is made late next year, he will have to win a seat in Parliament. Jenkins, the first to run under the new S.D.P. banner, narrowly lost a by-election in Warrington last July to a Laborite...
...mechanism may provide insights to the response in humans. So useful are cats that tens of thousands of them disappear into the nation's labs for experiments each year. Although researchers have studied cat brains with infinite care, none have discovered the secret of the cat's singular sound. The apparatus and meaning of purring remain a mystery of feline behavior, one of many unexplained traits that remain as folklore...
Turning up in the right place at the right time and sounding out those who make the news is a fundamental part of journalism's mandate. For 16 days last month TIME met that mandate in singular fashion as it escorted 32 top U.S. businessmen and leaders on a Newstour of Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf. From a lunch in Warsaw with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, just after he had been named the head of Poland's Communist Party, to an hour-long question-and-answer session with Egypt's new President Hosni Mubarak, the Newstour...
...that paragraph are the seeds and the secrets of a career. With only seven novels, Raymond Chandler became one of the most influential writers in American literature, and literature is what he wrote. This selective volume of his correspondence is a revelation of that singular, conflicted talent. Who touches this book touches a detective...