Word: coverly
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Born in Ottawa, Wilde began his career with TIME in 1959 in Indochina. He has since roved from Saigon and Paris to Nairobi and San Francisco, and is currently a senior correspondent based in Rome. One of Wilde's most memorable stories was a 1983 cover on the death penalty. He wrote so gripping an account of what it felt like to sit in an electric chair that the first paragraph of his story was printed on the cover itself. Occasionally, his travels around the world have proved to be somewhat disorienting: when he was covering a kidnaping in California...
...discussion, you trivialized a topic that demands a more open and healthy perspective. Furthermore, I hardly would have considered my discussion of the subject my "agenda," as it is clear from the outline that this was a minor part of the talk, and in fact I was asked to cover the topic as one of interest and concern to members of SONG. Paul Widerman '83 Alumni Advisor to SONG Assistant Wrestling Coach
...most probable theory is Theory five: Cover Your Tracks. With Quayle chanting the Conservative Line and Bush chanting the "End of History" Line, there is little that the administration hasn't covered. Quayle's public statements put just the necessary tinge of cynicism on all this euphoria. The administration has little knowledge of what is to come, and little input into how it will be done. They are sitting pigeons, and, honestly, that's risky public policy. So, instead, they'll casually glide on the wave of current events...
Noriega surrendered Wednesday night to U.S. troops outside Panama City's Vatican Embassy 10 days after he took refuge there, and was flown into Homestead Air Force Base south of Miami under cover of night yesterday...
...bored, he only scored 31 points in 27 minutes. Once word about Miner's abysmal performance starts getting around, Street & Smith's will probably take him off the cover of the West Coast edition of its college basketball preview. Dick Vitale will probably claim he was just kidding when he called Miner "the best thing to happen to USC since football." The basketball world will stop calling Miner "Baby Jordan...