Word: columnistic
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Frank Rich '71, New York Times columnist and senior writer for the New York Times Magazine, moderated the discussion. Rich is a former Crimson executive...
...There can't be many who remember the '70s with anything but amazement and disgust. In 1974, the columnist Joseph Alsop said glumly: "I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...
...flashed campaign coverage from every imaginable channel--except FOX--they preferred "Party of Five" over McCain. Huddled together, we stared at this splendor of technology and manpower. Alter flew off to another interview, and Franklin spied his heroine, Arianna Huffington while I discovered my hometown hero, the Boston Globe columnist, Mike Barnicle. Granted, he resigned from the Globe after they discovered his tendency to "fabrication," but he's still the best thing the Globe ever had. With his arms folded across his chest, he seemed mildly pleased to hear I was from The Crimson, but he too soon disappeared...
This notable lack of zeal could be a serious lapse on the part of the prosecutors or part of a larger plan unknowable to everyone watching the trial; or, as TIME columnist Jack White speculates, it could be a calculated risk designed to fell the most vulnerable, and culpable, of the four officers. "It may be the prosecution feels the case appears to be strongest against Carroll," says White. And with that in mind, the logic continues, it doesn't make sense to waste prosecutorial ammunition on the three other cops, who may have amounted to mere accessories. Prosecutors know...
Watching reactions to the first day of the Amadou Diallo murder trial in Albany, it was hard to say what caught people more off guard: The diversity of the jury or the speed with which the closely watched case is proceeding. According to TIME columnist Jack White, who's covering the trial in the upstate New York capital this week, we can thank the presiding judge for these happy surprises. "Judge [Joseph] Terisi is extremely efficient - he has complete control over this trial," says White. "He's responsible for the speedy selection of jurors and also for diversity...