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...that Joshua Rubinstein's Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg is so consistently absorbing. Most lierary biographies are forced to make an exciting story out of lives containing little external incident, and as a result they either present a catalogue of mundane details or try to unearth some salacious, gossipy stories about their subject...
...term, intensively reported projects. Among his stories since then: an expose of Senator Al D'Amato's questionable fund-raising activities and an exhaustive report on Colin Powell's wife and key adviser Alma. This week's piece was probably the toughest of all. He not only had to unearth a carefully buried story, but he had to master the intricacies of nuclear plant operation as well. Says Pooley: "I had to keep going over the same ground before I was sure...
...lives? Prochnau blames Washington and Saigon for an unworkable strategy against the Viet Cong and for a refusal to listen to journalists who discovered it wasn't working. The more the officials tried to bamboozle or stonewall reporters, the more they drove them to dig for themselves and to unearth a disaster in the making...
...Investcorp story is himself a master at unraveling tangled business dealings. Zagorin, a 17-year TIME veteran, has reported from Wall Street, the Middle East, Brussels and Paris, where he served as European economic correspondent. Among his assignments was the very B.C.C.I. scandal that Gurwin originally helped unearth. "Our backgrounds made us natural partners," says Gurwin. "Even our writing styles meshed. I wrote the nouns and Adam wrote the verbs...
Presidential candidates are often unable to recall -- or reluctant to reveal -- deep, dark secrets; their aides are forced to hire special gumshoes to unearth them instead. In fact, as the 1996 presidential race gets under way, investigating the boss before an opponent does it for you has become as integral a part of fledgling campaigns as fund raising and free media are. "It's essential," said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College. "You really need to see where the other side is going to come at you." Done right, counter-oppo (short for counter-opposition research...