Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.