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...skills as a bodysurfer. When it came time for college, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, planning to become a professor. By the time he completed his bachelor's degree in English, his growing interest in public affairs had spawned a new ambition to become a journalist. After taking a master's in journalism from Berkeley, Greenwald added a degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. As a reporter and later business editor for the Minneapolis Star, Greenwald focused on economics. Says he: "For many Americans, the 1973 oil shock brought...
Finally, congrats on the Marshall, Rebecca, we knew you'd get it too. It's nice to see a true yellow journalist rewarded. Allison G. Umminger '92 President, The Harvard Lampoon
...unemployment rate increased one-sixth as much as the blue-collar rate. This time it has increased fully half as much. The factory worker has the ballot box, but he has less access to the national soapbox than do the manager and the office worker, the M.B.A. and the journalist now on the street looking for work. In part, then, this recession has been hyped for the same reason plane crashes get far more ink than bus accidents: it hits a lot closer to home, and is thus far more interesting, to the chattering classes...
...long and powerful harangue about the death of the man Stone keeps calling "the slain young king." What are the rules of Stone's game? Is Stone functioning as commercial entertainer? Propagandist? Documentary filmmaker? Historian? Journalist? Fantasist? Sensationalist? Paranoid conspiracy-monger? Lone hero crusading for the truth against a venal Establishment? Answer: some of the above...
...actors became detectives too. "It's like being a journalist," Oldman said of his research into Oswald's character. "We all became assassination buffs. Marina ((Oswald's Russian-born widow)) had a tape that she let me see. It had a section leading up to the line, 'I'm just a patsy.' Oliver saw it, and he said, 'Let's restage that scene.' " Spacek spent time with Garrison's ex-wife Liz. "The sense I got from her," the actress says, "is of a woman living the life she wanted to live until her husband's obsession came through...