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These tales are more satirical than sentimental. In Someone to Talk To, a journalist who won't stop gabbing about himself long enough to ask a question is worthy of Evelyn Waugh. In Across the Lake, naive young Americans look for local color in an unnamed strife-torn country that could be Guatemala. Their detachment from reality echoes Paul Bowles' brutal stories of hapless adventurers...
Nevertheless, the most disrespectful aspect of this whole ordeal is how information was gathered. Since I publicly held a different opinion from other student officers that were interviewed, any responsible journalist would know that my views were pivotal in accurately reporting this story. When interviewed after the Board meeting, not one single comment that I made was used. Rather, you decided to rely on paraphrasing my position and actions, disregarding my direct input. I can only view insidious strategy to spin the story so my position "directly opposes" other PBHA students, and make my stance of constructive compromise seen...
...HOLLEY and his family were all set to move to Washington, where the Texas journalist was to begin work on Sept. 2 as a $90,000 a year speechwriter for FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON. Instead, the day before the movers were to arrive, the White House said never mind. Holley says that what derailed the offer was the White House's realization that he had been named in a sexual discrimination and harassment suit in 1989, while he was the editorial-page editor at the then San Diego Tribune. He maintains that he alerted the First Lady's staff...
...forthcoming book by Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (Knopf; $30), reaches similar conclusions. Shipler embarks on a sprawling, impressive tour along the "crucial fault line of America," crafting an absorbing theater piece of characters, from undergraduates at Princeton to probation officers in South Central Los Angeles. In one scene, a white waitress in Alabama jabs at a former school principal, a black man, for having suspended her 20 years earlier. The banter is lighthearted, but Shipler perceives more. "How galling...to feel helpless before a black man in authority...
Though both writers were raised in black middle-class communities by parents who emphasized education and achievement, the sensibilities and sensitivities that inform their respective journeys are markedly different. Where journalist Nelson is angry and agitated, attorney Parker is searching and painfully revealing. Nelson seeks common cause with all black women, whom she sees as suffering from a collective case of "invisibility and erasure"; Parker strives to delineate individuals, appreciating the "thousands of moments that [make] us fundamentally different from each other." Nelson remonstrates, with fist-in-the-air rhetoric leavened by wry humor; Parker demonstrates, depicting each moment with...