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Articles by John Darnton
A Little Light amid the Gloom
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Once a year, in January, I ascend a metaphorical mountain and take a good look at the changing landscape of American journalism. The George Polk Awards are deluged with entries for outstanding work across all media platforms, and as curator I go through all of them. This year there were four hundred and ninety-three.
Archives: Somalia Trys to Live by Both the Koran and ‘Das Kapital’ (1977)
Two years ago, when it was pressing a campaign to emancipate women, the Somali Government was vexed to find conservative religious leaders preaching against equality of the sexes and supporting their arguments with readings from the Koran. It decided to stop the dissent. Eleven of the religious leaders were rounded up, and early one morning they were executed by firing squad.
BURNING SKY | Kirkus Reviews
An enjoyable novel that should spark important discussion. A speculative thriller about the effects of global warming. Terrestrial temperatures will soon reach the point of no return, and authorities come up with a cockamamie scheme: Populate the stratosphere with sulfur particles to filter out much of the sunlight and cool things off. It’s called the Cocoon and covers the Northern Hemisphere, which is all the powers that be care about.
Forgery Of Wills: Avoiding Problems In A Digital Age
In a modern age, the problem of forged and fraudulent Wills becomes more difficult to handle in some ways, although technology is always moving. This article looks at a dark side of the estate planning business. The following article on issues around wills comes from John Darnton. He has almost 30 years’ experience of all aspects of matrimonial work, with an emphasis on the resolution of complex financial and child-related disputes, especially those with an international element.
SOMALIA EXPELLING ALL SOVIET ADVISERS, HALTS USE OF BASES (Published 1977)
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November 20, 2021 - Air Mail
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Who Puts the Buzz in Buzzwords?
How quickly a buzzword can become a buzzkill November 20, 2021 Reading Time: 4 minutes September 2, 1996: While ascending Mount Kilimanjaro, Fred Martine drops his backpack. His companion picks it up but loses his footing, managing to say only, “I’ve got your back … ,” before tumbling to his death. At the memorial service, Martine wipes away a tear and says, “His last words were ‘I’ve got your back.’” Peter Beard attends the service and spreads the expression to the Hamptons.
Who You Gonna Believe
Credit: flickr/Michael Coughlan CC BY-SA 2.0 As so often happens, comedy got there first. In the 1933 movie “Duck Soup,” Groucho Marx, dressed in a flowing nightshirt and cap, rushes out of a bedroom, leaving behind a stunned Margaret Dumont. She turns her back. Chico slips from under the bed, dressed in an identical outfit. Bewildered, she says she just saw him leave. No, he asserts. “But I saw you with my own eyes,” she insists.
MUSIC; How Fela Landed Me In Jail
MUSIC IT'S not always easy to realize when you're in the presence of genius -- especially when it comes in the form of a muscular 5-foot-7 Nigerian, dressed in leopard-skin bikini underpants, his eyes blurry-red from overindulgence in marijuana, who is ranting on and on about a toothbrush. Not a specific toothbrush, but the very idea -- the concept -- of the toothbrush, which turns out to be a vestige of colonialism, another Western assault on the dignity of Africans.
Nigeria's'Indigenization’ Policy Under Fire
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Rage at I.R.A. Grows in England As Second Boy Dies From a Bomb
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Self-Made Monster: An Actor's Creation
This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems. Please send reports of such problems to archive_feedback@nytimes.com. "Evil may well be nearer the surface than we like to admit," said Ralph Fiennes.
Nigerians Fear New Revelations in Cement Scandal
“In two or three years, We may be seeing buildings collapsing all over Nigeria,” the official added. The cement scandal was a major reason for the coup that overthrew the regime of former Gen. Yakuba Gowon last July. Under General Gowon, Government officials ordered 20 million tons of cement‐16 million tons by the Ministry of Defense alone—to be delivered within 12 months.
'Midnight's Children' Wins Special Booker Prize
ONDON, Sept. 20 -- Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" was judged the best British novel of the past quarter-century tonight, and the novelist came out of forced seclusion to accept the honor at a crowded ceremony in the second floor of a London bookstore. The 46-year-old author has been in hiding since February 1989, when he was publicly sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for publication of "The Satanic Verses," a novel Iranian authorities said blasphemed Islam.
NIGERIA CONFIRMS KILLING OF LEADER
Chosen to fill General Obasanjo's position as chief of staff, undoubtedly for tribal balance, was Shehu Yar Adua, a Moslem from the north. He is currently Minister of Transport and has emerged as a strong figure recently. Among other things, he was charged with reducing port congestion brought about to fraudulent letting of cement‐purchase contracts under the earlier regime of Gen. Yakubu Gowon.
Review: How newspaper work affected the Darnton family
We read Paul Theroux because of his eye. He sees everything, wherever he is, in India, London, Hawaii, or Africa. We read Paul Theroux because of his eye. He sees everything, wherever he is, in India, London, Hawaii, or Africa. Max Boot begins by asking the right question: “What caused the tragedy of the Vietnam War?” I’m not sure such an answer is susceptible to single causality.
2 Deaths -- One Then, One Now;On Losing a Father, A Newspaperman
It exploded some distance away, but shrapnel struck and killed the skipper, Lieut. Bruce Fahnestock. My father grabbed the wheel. The plane circled, returned and dropped a second bomb, which sent a piece of metal straight into the back of his neck. Death, we were told at the time, was instantaneous. No one else was hurt. Our mother never remarried.
Istanbul Journal - A Prophet Tests the Honor of His Own Country - NYTimes.com
ISTANBUL, Turkey— In physical stature Yasar Kemal, Turkey's best-known and best-loved novelist, is decidedly Hemingwayesque -- a big, barrel-chested man who looks as if he's ready to wrestle with the devil. And that, a lot of people feel, is exactly what he's doing. Mr. Kemal, 71 or thereabouts -- such things are a bit vague in the wild mountains near Adana where he was born -- is facing the wrath of the avenging state. Turkey has charged the author under Article 8 of the Anti-Terror Law.
Pete Hamill’s Tabloid Thriller (Published 2011)
Granted, as silver linings go this may be scant consolation, but the decline and demise of newspapers seems to be ushering in a raft of good novels by journalists who miss the old ink and newsprint. Reporters harking back to footloose times are not new (think of Evelyn Waugh’s “When the Going Was Good”), but now that end days may actually be upon us, we may be facing a complete subgenre: Où sont les news d’antan?
A Newsman's Family, Missing in Action (Published 2011)
What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books Books of The Times As coping devices go, mythmaking is a bit more sophisticated than vodka or pills, if less conscious. Especially when a son is trying to make sense of a father's fingerprints on his soul.
A Journalist Investigates a Father Lost at War (Published 2011)
What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books We are all familiar with the five stages of memoir: myth, trauma, revelation, redemption, book contract. In his wonderful memoir, "Almost a Family," John Darnton has taken this modern form to a new level.
Inside Barings, a Clash of Two Banking Eras (Published 1995)
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Oil Under Windsor Castle? The Queen Says Have a Look (Published 1994)
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NIGERIA'S DISSIDENT SUPERSTAR (Published 1977)
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