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...Needless to say, NBC is by no means the first outlet to alter their official nomenclature. According to Editor & Publisher writer, Anna Crane, the Los Angeles Times was amongst the first media outlets to shed the qualifiers and label the fighting directly as a civil war. Other organizations have since fallen into line. The Christian Science Monitor likes “deepening civil war,” while Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria is pretty direct: “We’re in the middle of a civil war and are being shot at by both sides...

Author: By Bede A. Moore | Title: The Luxury of Distance | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...Celebrity spokeswoman for the Ab Roller B) The romantic lead in a new Tim McGraw film about a down-on-his-luck bull rider C) The highest paid Hollywood actress in 2006, with a $17 million paycheck D) Philip Roth's new fictional alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 11, 2006 | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...filled with injuries, disappointment, last-second heartbreak, and, not to be forgotten, occasional stretches of utter dominance at both ends of the floor—after four seasons, in short, which have left observers with a feeling that the 7’0 center’s potential to alter the dynamic of a game on any given night has not yet been fulfilled­—Brian Cusworth has 18 games left to show the league, foreign teams, and himself just what he is capable of achieving on the court.No matter how well he plays, regardless of whether...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '06: Curtain Call | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...assume you know more than your characters do, or condescend, even to children. A young girl, Munro's alter ego, tells an affluent employer how, where she comes from, "children walked barefoot until the frost came in order to save on shoe leather" and people ate "dandelion leaves, nothing else, for supper." Just as we're shaking, she admits (to us only) that not all of this is strictly true--and so tells us as much about the sly, storytelling imagination of the girl as about rural circumstances that really were desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Write A Short Story | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

Vaseleck said, however, that the changes will not make the test more difficult or alter the skills that the test assesses. In addition, free sample comparative reading questions will be offered beginning in February...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New LSAT To Debut in June '07 | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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