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...role-playing a senator, representative, NSC member or journalist, students propose legislation, make foreign policy decisions, and publish a daily newspaper in English and French during the conference, coordinators...
...tribal bonds between Safire and the Times are intense. It is odd to recall the epithets that greeted his ill-timed arrival in the midst of Watergate; Safire's critics could not decide what was worse -- that he was a Nixon apologist, a right-winger or a non-journalist. "What impressed me was how quickly he became a Times person," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's former executive editor. In fact, when Rosenthal began writing his own pugnacious Times column, Safire cracked, "Overnight, you've made me a centrist...
...Mikhail Gorbachev posed for photographs with Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de Mello in the Kremlin last week, a Brazilian journalist called out the question on everyone's mind. Would Gorbachev confirm the report broadcast around the globe by CNN that he was planning to quit as Communist Party chief? Gorbachev listened to the translation with a puzzled look, then smiled. "Many rumors and suppositions are circulating worldwide," he said, gesticulating with his hands for emphasis. "All this is groundless. It has come into vogue in the international press to set rumor mills working as soon as we approach...
...Generally we will not go with a single source," says Timothy Russert, senior vice president of news at NBC. "Of course, every news organization makes exceptions." Asserts CNN's Ed Turner: "We double-check sources when it is humanly possible. But you also have to believe in your own journalist on the scene...
...terror of teetotalers and the debunker of American myths, Mencken was the most famous journalist of his time. Known for his biting commentary, the Baltimore-based writer combined a lifelong interest in the uniquely American forms of the English language with an abiding concern about the public issues...