David Hoffman
David Hoffman
Prolific journalist and author of non-fiction who is best known for his book The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy. The book, published in 2010, earned him the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth5 June 1953
CityPalo Alto, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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He's got a master plan. People might not see it right now, but the guy knows what he's doing. There's absolutely no doubt about that.
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Even with a lot of the accounting stuff out, they've still got to make the jury understand the underlying fraud, and that's where I think Sean will shine.
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It suggests that he's not particularly hostile to securities plaintiffs and many judges are.
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It was the first time Soviets and Americans got to hear uncensored discussions of real-life things about each other on television.
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The civil war began when Azerbaijan shut down the Armenian-language television station. It's the same thing that precipitated the siege of Sarajevo when (former President Slobodan) Milosevic turned around the television transmitters so people didn't have access to news -- not to mention radio's infamous role in fomenting violence in Rwanda. The longer I work on media issues, the clearer it is that the free flow of information is critical to avoiding war.
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The Empire State Building is making a concerted effort to reclaim some of its past glory.
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The mayor has asked only one thing of me -- to take all necessary steps to find wrong doing in city government and to expose it. If this requires big plans, I stand ready to put them in place.
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I want you to pay close attention to the rumor, innuendo, opinion and what purports to be news as opposed to what people actually know.
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I will investigate aggressively and creatively and will follow the evidence wherever it leads.
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We'd like to get this behind us, and we're confident we're going to prevail.