Peter J. Boyer
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a reporter at large ·
How the Mississippi lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco overstepped.
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Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, and the transformation of American evangelicalism.
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about Stephen Williams’s religious-discrimination lawsuit against the Cupertino, CA, school district. Cupertino, California, is …
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Paul Wolfowitz defends his war.
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Is the Army becoming irrelevant?
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about Rev. Jesse Jackson… Tells how Jackson had spent previous months dodging questions about the revelation that he had fathered a …
a reporter at large ·
Rafael Perez’s testimony on police misconduct ignited the biggest scandal in the history of the L.A.P.D. Is it the real story?
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about “cause” lawyer Dennis Henigan, and about civil suits being planned against American gun manufacturers... Once in the bar, he…
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about Texas businesswoman Nolanda Hill, fifty-two, and her relationship with the late Sec. Ron Brown... Describes the scandals …
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about events surrounding the suicide last May of Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda... The event brought new anguish to the navy, but also a…
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about Travelgate. The Clinton campaign in Little Rock, Arkansas, was one of the best-run campaigns in history, disciplined and tightly …
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about convict Willie Turner, 49, who escaped several times from Virginia prisons before his execution May 25, and who, after his death,…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Lisa Foster, the widow of former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster. This is Lisa's first interview since her …
the political scene ·
Gore has spent his life preparing for the Presidency, only to find himself now cast as the Walter Mondale of the nineties, Peter J. Boyer writes. If it’s too late to save this Administration, is there still time to save his party and himself?
letter from burbank ·
To land the biggest gig in late night, Leno had to make an enemy of David Letterman, Peter J. Boyer writes—and abandon the manager and longtime friend who’d brought him to TV in the first place.