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Four years after a sex scandal forced Morris out of his job as Clinton's most trusted advisor, the controversial commentator-turned-democracy entrepreneur engaged political journalist Jacob Weisberg in a debate last night on the repercussions of the Internet for American democracy...
...Prime Minister in the country's history at the age of 36 in 1991, will join Jamil Mahuad, who just finished his term as Equador's president. Former McCain aide Rick Davis, Medicare chief Nancy Ann DeParle, former congressional representative and Vietnam War protestor Father Robert Drinan and investigative journalist Ted Conover will also lead student study groups that begin next week...
...shrill, predictable question, "Roger, would you care to rejoin the class?" I would think, "Not really," as I swiveled reluctantly toward Planet Earth. Being an apolitical junkie, I feel the same way in this season, which is an unacceptable (not to mention unemployable) position for a journalist. From time to time, I try to be interested in what they are saying--the specialists on TV and in the papers who are lecturing on Bush, Gore, Tecumseh, the tundra, [pi]r2. (Shouldn't it be "pi is squared"?) But a blind man could see that I am drifting downstream with...
Like the Miller character, Crowe was introduced to rock by his rebellious big sister and grew up in San Diego (his father James, who died in 1989, sold real estate and ran answering services). Crowe skipped three grades, graduated from high school at 15 and became a journalist by sending writing samples to rock critic Lester Bangs (played in the movie by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Writing became both his vocation and his mode of rebellion against his mother Alice, a teacher who banned rock music in their home and refused to buy Crowe a bicycle because "they're too dangerous...
What gives Crowe's story poignance is his background as a teenage working journalist. At the age when kids are supposed to be feeling those gonadal guitar jolts for the first time, he was standing backstage during a concert, riding the band bus, eliciting sexual confessions from rock Rimbauds. This was a kid's dream. But to live it--to survive it--Crowe had to be a premature grownup...