"I struggled with the decision for many days, especially since I have been a fan of Rachel throughout," said James Platz, an Indiana-based correspondent for the magazine Blood-Horse.
But John Hooper, a Rome-based correspondent for The Economist and The Guardian, is here with "Fatal Voyage: The Wrecking of the Costa Concordia" ($1.99), the first wide-angle account of these events.
FOR the last week Kenneth Cukier, a Tokyo-based correspondent for The Economist, has been visiting disaster zones in north-eastern Japan to contribute to the paper's coverage of the "hydra-headed disaster".
Khaled Abdelkariem, a Washington-based correspondent for the Middle East News Agency who regularly attends briefings by the State Department, said the problem is that the administration's emphasis on soldiers delivering food and medicine rather than discussing why a foreign army is invading Iraq has often seemed patronizing.
With my friend Peter Slevin, the Chicago-based correspondent for the Washington Post, I set out for the far South Side of Chicago, where Obama spent three years in the late eighties, following in the footsteps of Saul Alinsky and working as a community organizer.
Mr. McCrum, whose wife, Sarah Lyall, is a London-based correspondent for The New York Times, proposes in "Globish" that alongside the Internet, the globalization of English and of "English literature, law, money and values" is nothing less than "the cultural revolution of my generation".
A senior Russian official with a long history in the arms trade told Andrew Kramer, a Moscow-based correspondent for The New York Times, that Russia had not provided Libya any shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles since the Soviet Union's collapse — which was before the SA-24 was brought into production.
But multiple witnesses said it was NOT troops firing at civilians — Alastair Beach (@Alastair_Beach) 5 Jul 13 Sharif Abdel Kouddous, a Cairo-based correspondent for The Nation magazine and the radio show Democracy Now, was reporting from the protests when the shooting began.
David Crow is a New York-based correspondent for the Financial Times of London, in which this review first appeared.
