The Washington Monthly's Monthly Journalism Award: Adam Clymer.ADAM Adam, the first man, in the Bible Adam (ăd`əm), [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. CLYMER "Goverment Opennes at Issue as Bush Holds On to Records" The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, January 3, 2003 The Bush administration's more egregious e·gre·gious adj. Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant. [From Latin efforts to shield government records and proceedings in secrecy--most notably Vice President Cheney's energy task force records--have received ample attention from journalists. Clymer delves into some of the administration's less publicized pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. Adj. 1. publicized - made known; especially made widely known publicised efforts to limit public disclosures, such as its attempts to undercut the Freedom of Information Act and classify more documents. Clymer traces Bush's reluctance to release government records to the public back to his day as governor of Texas, and carefully lays out the case for why such secrecy raise grave problems, concluding that "secrecy does more harm than good." |
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