Word: transformation
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...definitely not the heir apparent: Eugene Roberts, who at 61 is four years Lelyveld's senior and who left the Times in 1972 to transform the soggy Philadelphia Inquirer into one of the nation's foremost dailies. Lelyveld calls the low-key, deceptively shrewd Roberts "one of the great strategic thinkers in journalism," a judgment shared by most people in the industry. Several have tried to lure Roberts back into editing since he retired in 1990, after spurring his Inquirer staff to win 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years on topics ranging from the intricacies of the federal budget...
Most South Africans were hoping against history that the elections designed to transform their country would go smoothly. But just as the centuries of white domination come to an end, the prospect of a civil war that might blow up the process has shaken the country's 40 million citizens. De Klerk, opting to fight for peace if necessary, ordered in the troops. The choice -- between rebellion and acquiescence -- is now up to Inkatha...
This has raised a novel question. Why are taxpayers in Milwaukee and elsewhere subsidizing what could be considered the largest health-club chain in the nation, allowing tens of thousands of otherwise scrawny murderers, muggers and rapists to transform themselves into muscle monsters? The issue so incensed Milwaukee County supervisors that they voted 13 to 10 last month to ban weight lifting in the county's 1,400-inmate prison, a move they hope will ignite a nationwide campaign against the cult of prison body-building. Says Roger Quindel, a sponsor of the ban and an amateur weight lifter: "Allowing...
...only Voysey and Donnelly could bring themselves to move beyond the wry witticisms, the characteristic one-liners and the political thunderings of Shaw more than, they could conspire to transform My Astonishing Self into something more profound than a parroting of Shaw...
...myself in the mirror and said "Mike. It's time to broaden your horizons." I decided that I had to spend the last few months of my educational career drowning myself in the vast river that is Harvard's diversity, hoping, like Marlow, Ahab and Arnold before me, to transform myself in the process...