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testify in secret would place a cloak of suspicion over him and affect his ability to gather news. Many journalists wrote affidavits on his behalf. US District Court Judge
William Frey ruled on Miller's behalf, stating that Miller "appears to be a member of the group about which he reports rather than an objective reporter. He occupies a dual capacity. However…" The Justice Department appealed the decision and refused to state its reason for subpoenaing Miller. Eventually the grand jury expired and the case ended with Miller free and clear of its purpose.
330:"Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The best of the genre can simply be an elegant natural history essay, a nicely writ sports piece, or a well-turned profile of a bar band and its music. A well-grounded sense of place is the challenge for the writer. We observe, we calculate, we inquire, we look for a link between what we already know and what we're about to learn. The finest travel writing describes what's going on when nobody's looking."
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Internal Security Division of the U.S. Justice Department probing the anti-Vietnam war protests, subpoenaed Miller to testify before a grand jury. He refused to enter the grand jury room, claiming First Amendment rights that as a journalist, even free-lance for the underground press, to
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He wrote many articles about Cuba for a wide range of publications. As co-founder and co-director of
Writers of the Americas (2000-2002) Miller arranged for approximately 15 American writers to mix with a like number of Cuban writers in Havana in somewhat of a literary détente. In 2008 he began
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University of Arizona's Latin American Area Center since 1990, and resides in Tucson with his wife, Regla Albarrán. In 2008 the City of
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interviewing its denizens. The book was published in 1981. For approximately six years (1979-1985) Miller worked as a stringer for the
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happened to read. He had been paid $ 15 to write the article; the editor suggested his magazine would have paid $ 750 for the same work. Soon he would find his first mainstream work with them.
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