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...told, Gup spent a month in Logan County, W. Va., a microcosm for hundreds of company towns built around ailing industries. "It's a subtle story," says senior editor Stephen Koepp. "It's about how these people became dependent on, almost addicted to, a way of life." It's also a story about cheating and corruption, practices that Gup experienced firsthand. One day a mine tour he had been promised was abruptly canceled. Reason given: a federal agent was inspecting the facilities, although there was no inspector there. Several witnesses told Gup the real reason was that safety equipment hastily...
Normal people, beginning their careers, often plan toward what they hope to be doing in 20 years. But journalists aren't that normal -- and besides, how could Barrett Seaman have known in October 1971 that he would spend his 20th anniversary with our company in rural Wise County, Va., watching Oliver North, the ramrod Marine who mesmerized America during the 1987 Iran-contra hearings, campaign for Republican candidates? But for Barry, who excerpted North's autobiography, Under Fire, for this week's issue, getting a close-up look at the author in action was critical to understanding his enduring appeal...
...didn't take long for Catherine Broderick to discover that working at the Arlington, Va., regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission was not much fun. After Broderick's arrival in 1979, a top administrator got drunk at an office party, untied her sweater and kissed her. That was nothing unusual: a female junior attorney and two female secretaries were openly having affairs with their male superiors. When Broderick rejected advances of a similar nature, she began receiving negative performance reviews and was threatened with dismissal. "I did not participate or condone it, and that stymied my career...
...Gates nomination has triggered a controversy that has little to do with the sometimes ugly, even bloody, but necessary business that case officers transact in the back alleys of the world. At issue is the way bureaucrats behave toward one another at the home office in Langley, Va...
These visas will be distributed by an unusual method: the winners will be the first 40,000 qualifying people whose applications are received after midnight on Oct. 14 at a post-office box in Arlington, Va. Immigrants and their lawyers are converging on Arlington to dump thousands of applications directly at the post office. About 40% of the slots are reserved for people from Ireland, which reflects not only the clout of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy but also recognition of the problem posed by the presence of as many as 100,000 illegal Irish immigrants...