MONDAY, MAY 15, 2006
Poynter's St. Petersburg Times
It was more of an event than an interview, recalls
Philip Gailey. He writes:
After maybe 20 minutes, Abe [Rosenthal] suddenly stood up and said, "Do you want to work for the New York Times?
I said something like, "There's nothing I want more.''
Abe asked again, this time with emotion, "Are you excited about working for the New York Times?''
"Absolutely,'' I replied.
He told me I had a job in the Times' Washington bureau and gave me a congratulatory bear hug. Then he broke out a bottle of scotch and we toasted the happy occasion.
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Wiesel: He combined "intellectual rigor with human compassion" (NYT)
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Bloomberg: "Abe really did love this city with all his heart" (NY Sun)
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Roderick: Rosenthal was one of the best foreign reporters, too (AP)
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"We profit, endlessly, from his ingenuity and perspective" (Yahoo)Posted at 9:26:13 AM
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