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...liked Rawlings' emphasis on security. "There was not much armed robbery; you could move about at night," she says. Gershon shakes his head. "Suzzy hadn't seen anything different before, so she couldn't compare," he says of Rawlings' time. "I felt we needed something new. You could not speak freely. There was no freedom...
Career changes can affect family members dramatically too. When Reid accepted the P&G job, she uprooted her doctor husband from Richmond, Va., along with their two young children. The couple eventually divorced. Ruxin's move forced his new wife (the trailing spouse, in human resources--speak) to make a career change of her own. Alissa, 32, once managed wellness programs for Goldman Sachs; today she is about to open a swanky caf� in Rwanda's capital. In his reporting on the "true stories of people who turned their obsessions into professions," Josh Piven, author of The Escape Artists...
...wasn’t a Crimson reporter there? Your lack of coverage of the Finkelstein lecture is especially disappointing considering a Crimson editorial from two years ago. In “Keeping it Civil” (editorial, Nov. 8, 2005), you supported the invitation of Finkelstein to speak (about Dershowitz’s book) and condemned students who heckled and shouted at the professor throughout his lecture. This was of course not because you supported his views but rather so “that all ideas, however incendiary, can be voiced and judged in a true marketplace of ideas...
...their ideas, as a means to getting at the “common” man’s thought. As Igo puts it, the pollsters gathered “atomized bits of opinion” and then “[grafted] them together so that they might speak for ‘America.’”Despite the polling technique of using a sample to represent the whole, pollsters also presented themselves as champions of the people, “serv[ing] as the instrument by which ordinary Americans’ voices could become audible...
...five and grew up hungry and poor. As the eldest child, he had to fend for the rest of his family. Of his childhood, he simply says, "I have no good memories." He has come into the city of Kandahar on a winter's day in late January to speak to a reporter but has to leave before night falls and the risks of capture increase. The interview is rushed...