When veteran foreign correspondent Rone Tempest left the Los
Angeles Times in June, he e-mailed what he called "4 Career Life
Lessons from a Retiring Hack" to his about-to-be-former colleagues:
I "Never write a company-wide memo
II "In any foreign language the most important phrase is
'My friend will pay' as in French 'mon ami va payer'
or Chinese 'Wo de pengyou yao mai le'
III "Given a choice, Bordeaux red
IV "Never get killed for an inside story."
COPYRIGHT 2007 University of
Maryland Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
Copyright 2007, Gale Group. All rights
reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.
NOTE: All illustrations and photos have been removed from this article.