Word: writer
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...writer is the former East Asia editor for the Times of London...
...people expected the expedition to find conclusive results," says TIME senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger. But one wonderful thing that did result from the undertaking, he notes, was the expression of good will and good nature that emerged from everyone connected to the search. "No less a person than Edmund Hillary said he was willing to accept the possibility that Mallory got there first," says Kluger. "That was a generous statement from the person who would be surrendering his place in the pantheon of explorers." Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay, were the first to successfully reach Everest?s peak...
...school shootings have combined "to create the worst possible climate for the gun industry," says Time senior writer Adam Cohen. In the House, Republican leaders have finally sensed the political damage that Democrats have inflicted on a party slow to pick up on the rising tide of public resentment. Though GOP leaders do not want to embrace gun control in a rush -- they don?t want a vote until mid-June -- "a decision has apparently been made at the top to get on board," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. Meanwhile, the gun industry is faced with both legal...
...doubt Latin music will continue to thrive as well. The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once wrote a story about an empire so obsessed with maps that its cartographers constructed a map as large as the empire itself. Indeed, one by one, Spanish-language stars are being mapped, represented in another form. This new map will no doubt prove useful for Anglo listeners unfamiliar with the territory. But true music lovers would be well advised to check out CDs like Anthony's Contra la Corriente or Elvis Crespo's Pintame or Shakira's Donde Estan los Ladrones? in addition...
...Lady writer on the TV/talk about the Virgin Mary..." the band Dire Straits once sang. "Lady writer on the TV/ She had all the brains and the beauty." When reminded of this, said lady writer breaks into peals of embarrassed laughter. "I guess that was me," confesses Marina Warner, whose second book, Alone of All Her Sex, a study of the Virgin Mary, came out around the same time as the 1979 song. "I wish I could claim something of more distinction in terms of popular culture, but I don't know that...