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...full-time journalist, I feel these same pressures. Since I'm more interested in politics than in racial issues, am I fulfilling my sociojournalistic mission? I suppose I could bring a black perspective by talking to more minority sources or by closely examining how Bush Administration policies affect minorities. But isn't this something a white reporter could do too? Similarly, if you're white and discussing racial profiling in a class, isn't it part of your role as a student to think about how you would feel about this issue if you were black? This is a core...
...from Louisville, Ky., attended Yale University and work as a TIME journalist. Since I haven't met any other person who shares these three characteristics, I suppose I add some diversity to most discussions I'm a part of. But at most colleges and workplaces in America, something else about me would make me add much more diversity. I'm black. And as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in a landmark Supreme Court opinion last week, borrowing language from a lower court, once a few people like me are sitting in a classroom, "discussion is livelier, more spirited...
...York last September to cover the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks for The Crimson. The weight of the sadness in the air that day was oppressive. It was impossible for any journalist to remain a detached observer. But it wasn’t the bagpipes or the reading of names or the faces of those left behind that really got to me. It was that third, long note of “Taps” and the way it cut through the silence in that pit and seemed to hang in the air forever. That was what brought...
...Fixing the problems in Iraq, of course, requires that they be accurately diagnosed. One question Administration officials are increasingly fielding is whether the U.S. forces are facing a guerrilla war. At a Pentagon briefing earlier this week, one journalist read out the definition of guerrilla warfare from the Department of Defense's own dictionary of terminology: "Military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held or hostile territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces." That, the reporter observed, sounds a lot like the current situation in Iraq. Rumsfeld was barely coherent in his response, talking about "five different things that are going...
...heart of the book, dominating every page, is the narrator, MM, an intrepid Indian investigative journalist. Like his creator, MM catches top government officials deep in criminal doo-doo, dealing in drugs and arms, but the autobiography presumably ends there. Bahal pushes the concept of the antihero to the limit. MM has a voracious appetite for heavy drugs and unusual sex. The story begins with him embedded in a paratrooper brigade in the Indian army, where he figures out how to inject heroin in free fall. From that point on, he and other characters overindulge in every imaginable recreational drug...