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Disenchanted with network news, Patrick S. Chung '96 has decided to refocus his interest in television toward auditioning for the sassy "Jean-Claude," the aspiring journalist character on his soon-to-be favorite Fox television program...
Whatever the deprivations, many of the expatriates seem inclined to stay put for a while, perhaps a lot longer. Mike Galetto, 23, a 1993 DePauw graduate and a free-lance journalist in Buenos Aires, professes to be "in no hurry" to return to the U.S.: "It seems that back home people my age either have no job or are in jobs they hate. So why not give it a shot here?" Larissa Donovan, 25, graduated from Northwestern in 1991 and moved to China in search of a career. She is now a trade representative in Beijing and considers herself...
...journalist Laton McCartney relates in his 1988 book, Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story, Bechtel workers were overworked, illegally paid in script, and compelled to live in dangerous, unsanitary conditions. Meanwhile, Bechtel played the corporate interest game, hiring powerful Jobbyists who successfully derailed the efforts of then-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes to initiate an investigation of the firm...
...general relief that some of the more sinister rumors about the young Mitterrand have been debunked. "He is not anti-Semitic," the author has been telling interviewers. "I never found a single word, a single line that allowed me to think otherwise." Says Alain Duhamel, a political analyst and journalist, of the new book: "It shows Mitterrand was a nationalist, pro- Petain, but not a collaborator. I think you can also see, in his cooperation with the author, Mitterrand's desire to put his biographical house in order." In looking back, the old warrior shows unmistakable signs of looking forward...
...biography of Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand has revealed new information of Mitterrand's youthful extreme right-wing sympathies and later his role in the collaborationist Vichy government in World War II. Une Jeunesse Francaise (A French Youth), by journalist Pierre Pean, was written with Mitterrand's cooperation and depicts Mitterrand as a young nationalist with sympathies for fascist regimes and later, as an ambitious official in Vichy. The book also says Mitterrand joined the Resistance only in 1943, later than he has previously claimed...