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LOVABLE RUSSIA The Girl from Petrovka (1974; 3) is a detente-era movie: Russian ballerina Goldie Hawn and American journalist Hal Holbrook find romance...
...with ambition. Experts also point out that while in 1965 there was a 20-point chasm between black and white high school graduation rates, a Census report last month announced that it had disappeared. "I don't want kids holding me down," says Afrika Harrigan, 17, a would-be journalist. "Why would you do that to yourself...
This is very different from my previous job experience. A writer works alone, even if he or she is physically in an office filled with other people. Among journalists, an occasional bout of dyspepsia or misanthropy is not merely tolerated but expected. A freelance journalist working at home, meanwhile, can spend days, months, years broody and unshaven (or, he sometimes begins to feel, actually dead), and no one will care. As it happens, shaving is not a high priority at the company where I work. But broodiness is acceptable only among the software developers, who are the equivalent of writers...
Soon after she left, she got a job at the morning anchor's desk at CBS, an appointment that surprised many television insiders, who questioned giving the important position to an untested journalist...
...recover rationality after being irrational, to recover a normal life, is a great thing," declared John Nash, who awoke from a quarter-century of schizophrenic debilitation to accept the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nash's life, set forth in the new biography, A Beautiful Mind, by journalist Sylvia Nasar, is a miracle of resurrection. Mindful of that fragile journey, Nash pondered, "But maybe it's not such a great thing. Suppose you have an artist. He's rational. But suppose he cannot paint. He can function normally. Is it really a cure? Is it really salvation?" Consider the tragedy...