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Since I am an alumnus I feel Justified in saying that the Reverend Jackson, as a guest of Harvard, showed poor faste from the text of his prepared sermon (source: UPI dispatch 1/10/83 to castigate Harvard for its investments in South Africa. It would have been enough if, in one sentence he had simply deplored the existence of the investments. Instead, he indulged himself, in a three minute diatribe of shrill overkill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jackson's Visit: Sins of Omission | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...travel, leaving a trail of bogus forwarding addresses. By this point, Golding reaches for his old standby, the clamoring metaphysical question. Does Barclay flee because he is afraid of being saved or damned? Who is Halliday, the mysterious American billionaire who has given Tucker seven years to win Barclay upi as a trophy? Broad hints are dropped that the author and the critic have begun to exchange identities. Barclay asks the American: "How come you speak the way you do, Rick? Years and years in England I don't doubt." Tucker replies: "How come you speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutters of Life and Death | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...underdeveloped nations are calling for a New International Information Order (NIIO); to solve some basic problems. One is news imperialism; Brazilians often read about Brazil in UPI or AP service stories. Another problem is the stereotyping of the Third World in the Western media. And a third problem, whosxe catchword is Western cultural imperialism, is the world mindest that creates an cettt, and makes scores of poor children in Israel wear "Starsky and Hutch" t-shirts...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: Cultural Cop-Out | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

When first word of the assassination began to spread across the country--from a 12:34 p.m. (CST) UPI bulletin and a coatless Walter Cronkite interrupting the afternoon soap operas--the specter of conspiracy began to surface...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

Many of the stories are credited simply: "Special to USA Today." According to spokesman Clark, "That means the story could have been rewritten from the AP or UPI wires-- with additional research--or it could mean that it was contributed from one of Gannett's 85 other papers. But they're re-researched, not just rewritten...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The Nations Muzak | 9/22/1983 | See Source »

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