Word: yorkerism
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...Goodman '79, a news editor for WBAI/Pacifica Radio, and Allan Nairn, a reporter for the New Yorker, who both spoke last night at the Kennedy School, witnessed the November 12 massacre and were nearly killed themselves by the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers beat the reporters with the butts of their M-16s, fracturing Nairn's skull, The two journalists believe that it is only the fact that they are American that saved their lives...
...Yorker correspondent AllanNairn, who was with Goodman in East Timor at thetime of the massacre, called the events a"criminal policy on the part of the government ofIndonesia and the government...
...Yorker, I cannot imagine anyone who would be a better president or vice president for New York City than Jesse Jackson. No one has spoken more clearly than Jackson about the unmitigated catastrophe that the Reagan/Bush years have been for New York and other American cities. No one speaks more passionately then Jackson about the need for groups like Blacks and Jews to heal their differences and join together in pursuit of common goals...
When Thomas S. Foley became speaker of the house, a New Yorker profile referred to him as "the best President who would never run." Few would still agree with that assessment...
...Irish Catholic New Yorker, who did all of the typical Irish Catholic things in New York on St. Patrick's Day. My friends and I played hookey from my Catholic, all-girls' high school and went into Manhattan to march in the parade in our black-watch plaid uniform kilts...