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23rd Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 1988
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 1988 Fellowship Winners Photos by Ira J. Schwarz Judges for the 23rd Annual Competition were: Lenoard Devine, APF Fellow 1971 and managing editor, The Washington Post Linda Greenhouse, Washington correspondent, The New York Times Willilam Greider, Washington correspondent, Rolling Stone magazine Stephen Hess, senior fellow, The Brookings Institution Anthony Marro, executive editor, Newsday Peggy Simpson, economics correspondent, Hearst newspapers Betty Ann Williams, assistant managing editor, The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y.
Robert I. Friedman Died July 2 at Age 51
ROBERT I. FRIEDMAN died July 2 at age 51 at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital in New York City of complications of a rare pneumonia he contracted in the slums of Bombay, India while on assignment for Vanity Fair on a story of sexual slavery. The piece ran as a cover story in The Nation. Robert investigated the rise of the radical right in Israel while on his Patterson fellowship, work he turned into his first book, “The False Prophet,” a biography of Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane. Robert was assaulted by militant Jewish settlers when he was on assignment in Israel in 1994, shortly before his second book, “Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel’s West Bank Settlement Movement,” was published. He worked for the Village Voice from 1989 to 1995. As that paper wrote, “Robbie will be remembered as a dedicated pro who followed his reporting wherever it took him, no matter whom it offended or what it meant for his own career. In 1993, for example, Friedman castigated the FBI in the Voice for ignoring information
A New Book by Yvonne Baskin
A new book by YVONNE BASKIN, “A Plague of Rats and Rubbervine: The Growing Threat of Species Invasions,” was just published by Island Press. Yvonne shows how such species as zebra mussels, kudzu and water hyacinth disrupt biodiversity when moved into new territory. Yvonne lives in Montana and writes for Natural History, Science, Discover and the Atlantic Monthly.
Michael D’antonio And Andrew Spielman Have Written “Mosquito: The Story of Man’s Deadliest Foe.”
MICHAEL D’ANTONIO and Andrew Spielman have written “Mosquito: The Story of Man’s Deadliest Foe.” It was published in June by Science/Hyperion Books.
22nd Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 1987
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 1987 Fellowship Winners Photos by Ira J. Schwarz Judges for the 22nd Annual Competition were: Fred Barnes, senior editor, The New Republic Andrew Glass, Washington bureau chief, The Cox Newspapers Steve Hess, senior fellow, The Brookings Institution Anthony Marro, executive editor, Newsday Don Noel, political columnist, The Hartford Courant Helen Thomas, White House correspondent, UPI William Woestendiek, executive director, The Cleveland Plain Dealer