Word: journalism
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...events lined up for the week ahead. "Monday I will be with Senator Scoop Jackson for dinner. Tuesday Senator Keating has invited me to a party for the Vice President [Nixon]. Friday I'm going out with a New York Times columnist. I sure am getting fancy." Her journal at age 12 foretells how she would later play the game. "Last week, Allan Wood said he would give me three Cokes if I would wear a sweater and skirt this week to dancing class. I got the three Cokes...
...capitalism with sexism and racism.) But even his smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a co-worker's journal noted, "Arthur...boldly looked out the window." Mr. Toad was brave...
Sources: Good News--New England Journal of Medicine (11/02/00); Bad News--American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Cardiology; NEJM (11/02/00...
...eighth-grader, Brandi Blackbear, practices Wicca, a non-Christian religion which is predicated upon nature and the seasons of the year. In addition to suspending her, her school also confiscated her private journal and forbade her from wearing or drawing any Wiccan symbol in school. In its lawsuit, the school maintains that Blackbear, who formerly had a sterling record, has become a pariah among her peers and has fallen behind in her schoolwork as a result of the allegations. Brandi's father, Timothy Blackbear, told the press that "it's hard for me to believe that in the year...
...course, they may be suckers to pay for it, because the information turns up all over the place. Though both Slate and the National Journal's web site caved under pressure when sued for posting raw VNS exit polling numbers early in the afternoon of the New Hampshire primary, that threat hasn't stopped Matt Drudge, either a bolder proponent of First Amendment rights or someone who long ago stopped reading those "cease and desist" letters in his mailbox, who posted early numbers all afternoon...