Word: columnists
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...report on how to lose any weight one may have gained during the winter [Personal TIME, April 10], your columnist Janice Horowitz, size 2 petite, revealed that she had gained 6 lbs. The misery! The tragedy! I realize that TIME as a newsmagazine sometimes has to print material that is unpleasant and disturbing, but this is just too much. I read it at breakfast, and it ruined my whole day. Please spare us such horror stories! MARCIA BIKALES New York City...
...have to be a captain of industry.” The club that counted John F. Kennedy ’40 and Eliott Richardson ’41 among its members, now still attract some of the most vibrant intellectuals of the city. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis ‘48, author James Carroll, a substantial contingency from the Globe including former Globe publisher Benjamin O. Taylor and former editor Tom Winship ’42. There are the academics, including Professor of Social Anthropology emeritus Evon Vogt, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, and many...
Kenule (Ken) Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian man of letters, a newspaper columnist, novelist, poet and author of the television show Basi and Company, about a young man always in and out of trouble. But in the '90s, he quit his TV career to lead a campaign against oil drilling that was devastating the lands of his Ogoni tribe. His crusade was derailed when his movement was implicated in the killing of four pro-government chiefs. Despite global protests and his pleas of innocence, he was hanged for murder. But he is not forgotten, as shown by the sign...
...spate of fang baring among some higher primates in the media and scientific world, since it implies that gender differences owe more to biology than many people would like to believe. Three researchers wrote the Times to complain that Sullivan had overstated their thinking. In the online magazine Slate, columnist Judith Shulevitz attacked Sullivan for favoring nature over environment in a debate in which nobody knows yet which is which. In the days that followed, Sullivan fired back at Shulevitz in Slate, she attacked again, and other writers joined in. If testosterone use becomes a true cultural phenomenon, expect...
...Ripley" Affair. This is unsubstantiated gossip if I've ever heard it, but I might as well report it. According to the New York Post, Hollywood is buzzing that Matt Damon is unhealthily obsessed with... Mark Wahlberg. [collective murmur] It's an elaborate story - according to columnist Richard Jonson, Matt fears Wahlberg as his Ripley-esque rival; Wahlberg is more "real," coming from the streets of Boston instead of the sheltered life of Cambridge and Harvard and Wahlberg can easily snatch up the roles that Damon is too prissy to play. Damon's growing obsession with Wahlberg - he talks about...