Word: stephenes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thanks to Garry Wills for a logical lesson in leadership. Let's hope the intelligent Clinton recognizes this wisdom and leads by leaving. STEPHEN H. SMITH Ridgefield, Conn...
Once, in an attempt to educate myself, I sat through Cry Freedom, a Hollywood, overly glamorized, overly processed version of the Stephen Biko story starring Denzel Washington. For two hours I stared at the screen expecting some massive revelation about the South African political, social and economic climate. I was sorely disappointed...
...question: what would have filled the newspapers for the last seven months if it had not been for Monica? One story-in-waiting, certainly, is the set of fiascoes and firings that marked journalism this past summer, from The Boston Globe to The Cincinnati Enquirer, from Peter Arnett to Stephen Glass. Every few weeks, another newspaper or magazine made news itself, usually for printing as fact stories that did not happen...
Alone, the summers fiascoes follow no real pattern. In May, The New Republic fired Stephen Glass, a writer whose unusual talent for reporting all-too-perfect anecdotes came from the fact that they were too perfect: he made up at least parts of 27 different articles, sometimes inventing the stories wholesale. In the course of the summer, the Boston Globe forced the resignations of Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle for similar (if somewhat less marked) fictional tendencies. Even Time and CNN got on the bandwagon. In a joint project, the two media giants (and veteran reporter Peter Arnett in particular...
...Thanks to the AIDS Rides, people who have never raised money before were able to single-handedly generate thousands of dollars for the fight against AIDS," said Dr. Stephen Boswell, Executive Director for Fenway Community Health Center...