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- We at TIME are usually credited with having invented group
- journalism, the application of many minds to one story. We'll
- accept that credit, but we're equally proud of another
- tradition: when an individual writer or correspondent has
- something special to impart, we make space on our pages for that
- writer's words alone. This is true of weekly stories, and also
- of regular columns. Since 1973 Hugh Sidey has written a column
- for TIME on the presidency as seen from his own special
- perspective. For twelve years Tom Griffith has dispensed his
- seasoned views on the press in his Newswatch column.
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- This week another columnist of formidable stature debuts in
- the World section under the title America Abroad. The author is
- Washington bureau chief Strobe Talbott, who has unraveled the
- complexities of foreign policy in a wide variety of TIME
- stories since 1971. Twice a month America Abroad will offer
- readers a regular opportunity to read one of Washington's most
- perceptive observers of foreign affairs. Says World editor James
- Kelly: "Talbott has the rare ability to explore complicated
- issues in a manner that is lucid and provocative."
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- Talbott plans to use the column as a vehicle for both
- reporting and taking his own stands. "While I think of myself
- as essentially a reporter, I have strong views on most matters
- too," he says. Talbott's choice of subject will often reflect
- his credentials as an expert in U.S.-Soviet affairs and as the
- author of three books chronicling the past twelve years of
- superpower arms-control diplomacy, but he plans to vary the
- scope of America Abroad. He will weigh in at times with topical
- examinations of news events, step back on other occasions to
- take a historical perspective and devote a column now and then
- to one compelling personality.
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- Hot off the presses: TIME's second book, The Winning of the
- White House 1988. Written by five TIME staffers who covered the
- campaign, edited by special projects editor Donald Morrison and
- introduced by historian Garry Wills, this concise inside story
- is the first book-length chronicle to reach the bookstores after
- the longest and nastiest presidential campaign in memory. Read
- it for the definitive account of how George Bush won.
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