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Bio of past SAJA guest speakers
Wednesday, May 29, 1996
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ELISABETH BUMILLER & STEVEN WEISMAN
A wife-and-husband team from The New York Times
ELISABETH BUMILLER has been a feature writer with The New York Times metro staff since July 1995. Previously, she was with The Washington Post for 13 years. Among her assignments: Tokyo correspondent (1989-91); New Delhi correspondent (1985-87); Washington social and political writer for the Style section (1979-84). She began her career as a staff writer in the Gulf Coast bureau of The Miami Herald in 1977.

She is the author of two books: May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India (Random House, 1990);
The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family (Times Books, 1995).

Born in Aalborg, Denmark, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Elisabeth has a bachelor's in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

STEVEN WEISMAN became a member of the editorial board of The New York Times in February 1995, after having served as deputy foreign editor since May 1992.

Previously, he served as bureau chief in Tokyo from 1989 to 1992 and as bureau chief in New Delhi from 1985 ro 1989. He was senior White House correspondent from 1981 to 1985; White House correspondent from 1979 to 1981; Albany bureau chief in 1978; City Hall bureau chief from 1976 to 1978; City Hall reporter from 1974 to 1976, and metro reporter from 1970 to 1974. He joined The Times as a news clerk in 1968. He won a Silurian Society award in 1975 for his reporting of New York City's fiscal crisis.

Born in Los Angeles, Steve has a bachelor's in English Literature from Yale.

Elisabeth and Steve spoke at the May 1996 meeting
Wednesday, May 29, 1996
Time: 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.; Lancers Restaurant
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