About the Author | Thomas L. Friedman - 0 views
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Now, you have to understand, Hattie was a single woman, nearing 60 at the time, and this was the 1960s. She was the polar opposite of ‘cool,' but we hung around her classroom like it was a malt shop and she was Wolfman Jack. None of us could have articulated it then, but it was because we enjoyed being harangued by her, disciplined by her and taught by her. She was a woman of clarity in an age of uncertainty."
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SABRINA wcta on 01 Dec 10This really sounds like a quote to me. THe way that he described this woman made the times that they lived in as clear as day.
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flavioc784 wcta on 01 Dec 10AMEN
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janae a on 01 Dec 10thats amazing :D
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University of Minnesota and Brandeis University, and graduated summa cum laude in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies
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In January 1989, Friedman started a new assignment as the Times's Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. During the next four years he traveled more than 500,000 miles, covering Secretary of State James A. Baker III and the end of the Cold War. "Journalism involves a lot of luck—being in the right place at the right time and then taking advantage of it," he once recalled. "I was very lucky to be in Lebanon when it became a dramatic global story, and I was very lucky to be on Jim Baker's plane to have a front-row seat for the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet empire, the first Gulf War, and the aftermath of Tiananmen Square."
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