Word: writer
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...writer is the president of the Harvard Islamic Society...
Penetrating the Byzantine world of high school requires a certain degree of tradecraft. Photographers Bob Sacha and Andre Lambertson, both veterans of the Duke campaign, showed their expertise at maneuvering in a complex social group. Religion writer David Van Biema, as he had at Duke, concentrated on the sensitive issues of death and faith. Photographers Joe McNally, Lauren Greenfield and Steve Liss managed to place themselves in the midst of teenage action most outsiders never...
...closest we came to subterfuge was in putting three of our youngest staff members, reporters Andrew Goldstein and Flora Tartakovsky and writer-reporter Jodie Morse, on the project. Goldstein, a recent arrival at TIME, brought to the assignment three years of teaching at a private high school in New Jersey. There are still kids at Webster Groves who think, wrongly, that Morse and Tartakovsky were posing as students. To be sure, Tartakovsky, a graduate of New York City's Bronx High School of Science and of Harvard, class of '98, could pass for a high school senior...
...only gripe: a writer's first duty should be to his readers, not his subject. Sometimes I got the feeling that Lewis so reveres his protagonist that he became his apologist. Clark, we're told, is restlessly obsessed with finding the next new thing--which is, apparently, a good quality. But another interpretation might be that Clark is simply driven by the pursuit of filthy lucre. There has to be a higher purpose to life than making yourself rich. During the '80s, we knew that the people making their fortune on Wall Street were hardly role models; yuppie...
...Your writer concluded his piece on Einstein by stating, "That he was a flawed human being is not only fascinating in a tabloid sort of way but reassuring as well. It makes our heroes, even those of unfathomable genius, seem a little more like us." If saying that of Einstein works, then it also works for Clinton. LYNN STEPHAN Wichita, Kans...