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...Amid the staff's weepy remembrances and goodbyes in the Rocky's final edition on Feb. 27, only sportswriter Dave Krieger let Scripps have it: "I still don't get how a newspaper with 200,000 paying subscribers and hundreds of thousands more readers on the Web cannot make a go of it ... 'Not our fault,' the suits say. '[It's the] business model's fault.' So who came up with the business model...
...amid the splatter of crushed limbs, the chatter of Strangelovean science fiction and the sludge of traditional romance--and despite way too much tone-deaf acting--Watchmen has splashes of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring flesh to their fantasies...
...more praise than they know what to do with. At one of last year’s orientation talks for freshmen, a resident dean opened by saying, “You all wanted to get into a good school, and you’ve done that.” Amid the raucous laughter that followed, the dean added, “You’ve all made it to a pretty good school.” More laughter ensued...
...nation’s economy, according to Vivek Wadhwa, a Law School senior research associate who led the study. Wadhwa said 52 percent of Silicon Valley startups and a quarter of startups nationwide were started by immigrants in the last decade. But as the U.S. job market stagnates amid an unprecedented recession and economic opportunities increase in fast-developing nations such as China and India, immigrants have begun returning home, depriving the United States of thousands of skilled workers. “When they go home, they’re going to create new opportunities at their home, bring innovation...
...face of it, the statement makes no sense. The atrocities in Darfur began long after al-Bashir took power and supposedly turned "moderate and civilized." Meanwhile, amid fears of a violent reaction should al-Bashir be charged, other government officials have promised that there will be no retaliation against aid workers or U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Darfur - or the hordes of journalists who have flown to Khartoum in anticipation of the announcement...