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Roberts also described what it is like to be a journalist covering Congress...
...things to know about Karen Tumulty, who was one of the main reporters on this week's cover story about minority whip Newt Gingrich -- and who wrote the accompanying story about House Speaker Tom Foley -- are that in her apprentice years as a journalist she acquired an MBA from Harvard and once covered a cow- milking contest by entering it. Plenty of reporters prove their tenacity by tracking down politicians in rest rooms, coaxing home numbers from prosecutors or outdoing fire fighters on lost sleep. Tumulty has done that; but her toughness reflects a quiet ability...
Senior members of the U.S. delegation even thought they had figured out how to elicit such statements. They invited onto the press plane an Israeli journalist who, at the news conference scheduled to be held in Assad's marble palace, could be expected to ask a leading question. The ploy backfired. When the journalist asked Assad whether he might ease Israeli fears by opening direct talks or visiting the country, Assad coldly turned aside the chance to offer reassurance, saying instead that one country's security concerns were no excuse for holding on to another country's territory...
This month, sleazy profiteer and self-professed 'journalist' Andrew Morton comes out with his latest magnum opus, Diana: Her New Life, in which he claims that a $24 million divorce settlement in is the works. Morton is the man who made his career telling inquiring minds around the world about Diana's late-night bulimic binges and five suicide attempts...
...crank phone calls; and James Hewitt's confessional has redefined the word cad. Last week the battle reached what may be the climactic point. The Sunday Times printed excerpts from Jonathan Dimbleby's approved biography of the prince, to be published Nov. 3. The author, a distinguished broadcaster and journalist, produced the documentary on Charles shown last summer in which the prince admitted to adultery. In addition to conducting long interviews with his subject, Dimbleby had access to diaries, letters and other records. The portrait he presents is shocking...