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- <title>
- Mar. 09, 1992: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 09, 1992 Fighting the Backlash Against Feminism
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 20
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- <p> Let's come right out and admit it. Among TIME's 26 bureaus
- around the world, some postings are considered more desirable
- than others, and Rome is right atop the list. Apart from the
- allure of the Eternal City itself, Cathy Booth's four years
- there featured a string of challenging assignments. She covered
- the papacy and the World Cup soccer matches, rushed to the
- Iraqi border to interview refugees when the gulf war broke out,
- and risked shellfire during a hydroplane foray into Lebanon. So
- at first, she admits, it "didn't exactly seem like a reward"
- when, 17 months ago, she was named Miami bureau chief.
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- <p> Miami has indeed proved to be a trial for Booth. Actually,
- two trials: the sensational rape proceeding against William
- Kennedy Smith, which produced TIME's "Date Rape" cover story,
- and the drug case starring fallen Panama strongman Manuel
- Noriega. She is thinking of more than climate when she boasts,
- "Miami is the hottest assignment around." Outside the
- courtrooms, Booth reported a cover story on Orlando and finagled
- 1992's great correspondent coup, a Business lead story on the
- booming cruise industry. Naturally, duty required Cathy to
- sample a Bahamas cruise. The bureau also covers the Caribbean,
- and she has reported from troubled Haiti and Castro's crumbling
- Cuba.
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- <p> Cathy came to us in 1985 from United Press International
- and reported in New York before moving to Rome. Perhaps the
- overseas experience did it, but what she likes best about Miami
- is the exotic, not-quite-America feel of the place. Is this the
- South Florida portrayed in TIME's grim "Paradise Lost?" cover
- story of 1981? Booth reports that guns and drugs remain big
- local businesses but that "Miami is no longer the nation's
- murder capital, or even its money-laundering capital. Miami
- Beach is a symbol of change. These days they're shooting models
- [with cameras], not criminals, in trendy neighborhoods of
- South Beach." The renovated Art Deco hotels are populated by
- European tourists, she says. Some of them are from glamorous
- Rome.
- </p>
- <p>-- Elizabeth P. Valk
- </p>
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