Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian writer and journalist who has been published widely for the past twenty years. Nickson was European bureau chief of Life Magazine in the late 80's, and early 90's. During that time she arranged photo stories and interviewed Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, the Dalai Lama, and dozens of other leaders, movie and pop starts, politicians and royalty, as well as torture victims, political prisoners and ciminals. She intiated and co-ordinated the acquisition of Nelson Mandela's autobiography for Little Brown. Prior to this appointment, she was a back-of-the-book reporter for the London bureau of Time Magazine. This Manual of Style has the simple purpose of making things easy to read by following a consistent format — it is a style guide. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ... Mandela redirects here. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ... The 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933). ...

Nickson has also written for The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, Tatler, The Sunday Telegraph, Vogue, Satur Night, Chatelaine, and Harper's Magazine. In 1994 Bloomsbury UK and Knopf Canada published her novel, The Monkey Puzzle Tree, which tells the story of the CIA mind control program in Montreal in the 50's and 60's. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

In 1999, Elizabeth returned to Canada, and began writing for the Globe and Mail, as a contributing reviewer for the Books section. She then became a weekly columnist for the Globe, moving to the Comment Page of the National Post in 2000. She is currently writing a column for the Women's Post, and once in a while, for the Comment Page of the Globe and Mail, while she builds a carbon-neutral house on Saltspring Island. She is writing a book about her experience. The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... The National Post is a major Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, Ontario, a district of Toronto. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Womens Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper, based in Toronto and distributed nationally. ...

Nickson is particularly known for her right-wing opinion pieces, which have often fiercely attacked politicians and public figures associated in some way with the political left. In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...

Plagiarism

Nickson's column was discontinued by the National Post after it was discovered that a 2002 column titled "Beneath the glamour, you find film scum", detailing the supposed "bad behaviour" of "fully paid up and noisy liberals" such as Kim Basinger, Sylvester Stallone, and Mike Myers, contained five sentences that should have been attributed to a 2001 article by Jonah Goldberg of National Review. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Kimila Ann Basinger (pronounced ) (born December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. ... Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, director, producer and screenwriter. ... This article is about the actor. ... Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969), is an American conservative commentator. ... National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine of political opinion, founded by author William F. Buckley Jr. ...