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...remember. Since he started as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1967, he has practiced his craft with a mission in mind: "I've spent most of my career writing about what it means to be black in America, trying to translate that for a wider audience." Joining TIME in 1972, he worked first as a writer in New York, then as a correspondent in Atlanta and Boston. In 1976 White won a Nieman Fellowship and went to Harvard to study ethnic politics and sociology in preparation for a stint as head of the Nairobi bureau from...
...hard at work under the hot sun. She is a lean, quick-smiling grandmother with cottony white hair, and what she does is hug. When an athlete here finishes an event, he or she gets a hug -- that's a rule, one that might be expanded to the wider world, and Alice is great at it, having practiced on four children and eleven grandchildren...
Even so, leaking is indeed a classic tool in the hardscrabble world of Washington politics. Congressmen, who are generally given only the outlines of a covert operation, occasionally hint their opposition to a secret activity without actually exposing it. Intelligence officials, on the other hand, leak for a wider variety of motives: to support or reshape an operation (such as assistance to the Afghan guerrillas), sometimes to score points or advance their political position...
...find that his body continually horrifies him. In McPherson's fine first novel Testing the Current, the young Andrew was an observer of adult mores; grown up, he is absorbed with words. They provide his life's structure but are "slippery little things . . . and costly too"; he seeks a wider world and a new language. Some fish in the Sargasso, not true swimmers, need its twisted mass for support; Andrew must trust that he is "lost in the weeds, but swimming." McPherson allows a few jarring coincidences to intrude, but his wise story of longing and limitations shows the disturbances...
...Iran-contra scandal spreads in ever wider circles, a disturbing image of Ronald Reagan is taking shape. Most accounts of Iranscam, notably the damning Tower commission report, depict the President as a woolly-minded, out- of-touch leader who permitted a band of overzealous aides to conduct secret and possibly illegal operations right under his nose. The White House has done little to dispute that characterization, and for good reason: an inattentive Reagan who knew little of the weapons sales to Iran and nothing about the illicit funneling of arms to the Nicaraguan rebels seemed better than a President...