New york times biography frank rich column
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Suicide Is Not Painless
A subtle part of this tragedy is the artificial requirement that forced Mr Reicher to take a placeholder position which could compromise his credibility. I clearly do not have all the details, which have not appeared in the press (including the NYT), but too often a prospective government employee must wait months for a security clearance before drawing a government paycheck. These “interim” positions can be the only source of income for federal officials.
By addressing and correcting the terrible, time-consuming and inefficient security-granting process, future Mr Reichers will not be placed in such a compromising position. We are losing good federal servants because of the difficulty in acquiring special-access level security clearances which face considerable backlog.
It is equally tragic that men and women of integrity who are caught in the world of “business-as-usual corruption” choose what they see as the only way out
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Biography: Frank Rich
rank Rich was named Associate Editor of The New York Times in January 2003 and began writing a weekly essay running as a column on the front page of the Sunday Arts & Leisure section that March. In keeping with The Times practice of having associate editors assist in planning the journalistic undertakings of the paper, Mr. Rich also serves as an adviser on the paper's overall cultural news report.
Mr. Rich was previously a columnist on the Op-Ed Page starting in January 1994. In 1999, he began writing a 1,400-word opinion piece that ran on the Op-Ed Page every other Saturday (instead of the 700-word piece that ran twice a week) and was given the additional title of senior writer for The New York Times Magazine. The dual title was a first for The Times and allowed Mr. Rich to explore a variety of topics at greater length than before. His columns and articles in each venue have drawn from his background as a theater cri
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Columnist Biography: Frank Rich
Frank Rich is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. His weekly 1500-word essay on the intersection of culture and news helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the paper introduced in the Sunday Week in Review section in April 2005.
From 2003-2005, Mr. Rich had been the front page columnist for the Sunday Arts & Leisure section as part of that section's redesign and expansion. He also serves as senior adviser to The Times's culture editor on the paper's overall cultural news report.
Mr. Rich has been at the paper since 1980, when he was named chief theater critic. Beginning in 1994, he became an Op-Ed columnist, and in 1999 he became the first Times columnist to write a regular double-length column for the Op-Ed page.
From 1999-2003, he additionally served as Senior Writer for The New York Times Magazine. The dual title was a first for The Times and allowed Mr. Rich to explore a variety of topics at greater le