Word: nexus
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When we decided late last week to put Nelson Mandela's visit to the U.S. on our cover, three of the journalists who scrambled to get the story were newly arrived college interns. Michelle Ray, an editor for the University of California at Santa Barbara Daily Nexus, assembled background research for the Nation section. Otto Pohl, a student at Cornell, photographed the parade in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, then joined assistant picture editor Richard Boeth at the light table to edit the pictures. On Thursday night Robin Bennefield, who has been managing editor of the Swarthmore Phoenix, headed...
...Turow's straight-arrow character may explain, better than anything else, why his books have struck a responsive public chord. His plots and characters revolve around a nexus of old-fashioned values: honesty, loyalty, trust. When these values are violated -- sometimes salaciously, always entertainingly -- lawyers and the legal system rush in to try to set things right again. But the central quest in Turow's fiction is not for favorable verdicts but for the redemption of souls, the healing of society. Best sellers seldom get more serious than that...
...only are all the sachems of the nation's football tribes, living and dead, on hand for the Super Bowl, but bull corpocrats, not-yet indicted politicians and assorted overweeners from every power nexus in the nation have massed here, drawn to sport's most relentless weeklong party by forces they do not understand. They wear suits that are the worsted equivalent of stretch limos. Around these grandees, trophy wives orbit glossily. Some of them know the names of the teams ("The Denver, uh, Cowboys?"). Lacquered geishas trucked in for the occasion balance vaselike on bar stools...
...with being a real serious place where lots of good and important and really reeally serious things happen. All the time, all the year. They, the people there, are selling to us: peace and prosperity. Government. At the low cost of XYZ % of your annual interrate disciplinary objective careeer-nexus net apartment-result equal opportunity cash employment intake. And the bill is neatly prearranged through IRS Bros Brokers Incorporated...