Word: stationed
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...detests leaks, journalists live by them, and press conduct is the other great issue of the Jewell affair. Is it right to print in every newspaper and broadcast on every television station in the world the name of a man who anonymous sources have said is the subject of an investigation but who has not been arrested or charged? Is it right to explore every aspect of his life, to sit outside his home with TV cameras for weeks on end? Is it right to sacrifice an individual's privacy to the abstract principle of the public's right...
...thought of my friend's observation recently when I read a story in the Washington Post reporting that a man named Andrew Carroll has been handing out cheap editions of The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, to motorists waiting in line at a District of Columbia vehicle-inspection station--a line in which, I think it's safe to assume, people must sometimes get the impression that the drawbridge is never going to go back down...
...poetry should be more broadly available in this country, Carroll was inspired to found an organization called the American Poetry & Literacy Project. The idea was to get relatively light and accessible poetry into the hands of ordinary Americans. Carroll's own wait at a vehicle-inspection station apparently convinced him that he had found a place where people are so hungry for distraction that they would welcome a copy of Paradise Lost, even if it came accompanied by the possibility of an unannounced quiz at any one of the class sessions before Thanksgiving break...
...member: satire experience, but also chutzpah, political convictions (his, probably), and a sense of humor. "I'm serious. If you have these things, we're looking for you," he said, seriously, and added that his address was listed in the back of his book: P.O. Box 831, Radio City Station, New York, NY, 10101-0831, or MMFlint@aol.com. In regards to e-mail, he cautioned that while all his mail gets read, only 12 out of the hundreds of messages that he receives daily ever get answered...
Weld wrapped up his 11-month campaign with a parade in Boston's North End attended by political ally New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. He also aired a 30-minute television infomercial on a local Boston station...