Clyde Haberman

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Clyde Haberman
Born	1945
Circumstances
Occupation	journalist
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times, The New York Post

Clyde Haberman (born 1945) is an American journalist who is currently a columnist for The New York Times. He has worked for the Times since 1977.

Among the billets at the Times that Haberman has filled include metropolitan reporter; foreign correspondent in Tokyo, Rome and Jerusalem; and staff editor of the Week in Review section.

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Haberman is a graduate of Bronx High School of Science and City College of New York. Haberman served proudly and very safely in the US Army in Germany in 1969-70 as a staff writer for the journalistically neutered organ of the US 7th Corps, The Jayhawk; a paper laboriously and expensively published but, alas, read by few. There he had his rather provincial, non-driving New York Weltanschaung amusingly expanded by contact with other American boys from less cosmopolitan backgrounds. One in particular, a Kentuckian, who upon filling a Coke bottle with water from a tap labeled in German, Nicht Trinkwasser, was told by Clyde that it " wasn't potable." This Bluegrass wag's straight-faced reply was, " Sure it's potable, Clyde, I done carried it over heah, didn't I!!"