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Because they fear discovery and deportation, illegal aliens are understandably reluctant to cooperate with any Government program. Because so little is known about them, estimates of their population range from 3 million to 12 million. Although the census does not ask if the respondent is in the country legally, the...
When Shawcross spoke this week to a crowd at the Kennedy School, a few in the audience nodded off, bored by the author's lengthy textual analysis of White House Years. If Shawcross displayed his wit at times, there was none of the emotion that the crowd had come to...
SAMUEL JOHNSON WROTE that "a judicious and faithful narrative" of any man's life could prove useful and instructive; certainly the life of a genius like Bob Fosse ought to be more interesting than most. Would that Dr. Johnson had written All That Jazz! It was written by Robert Alan...
This plan involves some sacrifices, to be sure: long periods away from the desk, jet lag, missing February in New York City. But journalistic fairness requires it. No expense should be spared to uncover what is buried under all this flapdoodle. Why not, say, $32,000 for the first leg...
Nevertheless, there remains a defect, particular to Wallraff's method, that mars his objectivity. Teleological journalism--reporting with a singular goal, like the doctrinaire Marxism Wallraff's professes--blinds the investigator to other, equally important truths. This prejudice makes The Undesriable Journalist an uneven collection. Some of the narratives read...