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...wild-and-crazy guy whose grandfather had co-founded Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Howard recruited smart, aggressive talent throughout the 1970s and let it loose to dig up dirt, badger Denver's cowboy-booted establishment and raise journalistic hell. Occasional newsroom gunplay and rampant staff drug use aside, those Hunter Thompson-like efforts paid off: the Rocky topped the Post's circulation in 1980. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...experienced traveler knows it's wise to buy airline tickets as far in advance as possible (the Avenger once had a relative badger him on Thanksgiving Day about his itinerary for next Thanksgiving). But while buying tickets early may save you money, it also opens the door to unexpected screw-ups - as when airlines make sudden schedule adjustments that torpedo your plans. One New York family found this out the hard...
...20th Annual Badger Hockey Showdown in Madison, Wis. turned out to be no vacation for the Harvard men’s hockey team, as the Crimson (4-8-2, 4-3-2 ECAC) dropped both the semifinal and consolation games Dec. 27-28 against two non-conference opponents.Lake Superior State (3-6-5) advanced to the championship game—won by Wisconsin Dec. 28—after blowing past Harvard in a 6-2 victory on Saturday afternoon. The Crimson fell to Alabama-Huntsville 4-1 on Sunday after defensive breakdowns in the third period against the Chargers...
...preparing his Oscar-winning Schindler's List, there have been 170 Holocaust movies. (The Internet Movie Database lists 429 titles on the subject.) It has become not just a topic but a genre, one that, at its most reductive, exploits the awful events of that chapter in history to badger viewers, intimidate critics, elicit easy tears and serve as a back-patting machine for serioso directors. The excesses of the genre have spawned derisive nicknames: Holo-kitsch (Art Spiegelman's term) and Holocaust porn (which Taylor cites...
...20th Annual Badger Hockey Showdown in Madison, Wisconsin turned out to be no vacation for the Harvard men’s hockey team, as the Crimson (4-8-2) dropped both the semi-final and consolation games this past weekend against two non-conference opponents.Lake Superior State advanced to the championship game—won by Wisonsin on Sunday night—after blowing past Harvard in a 6-2 victory on Saturday afternoon. The Crimson fell to Alabama-Huntsville 4-1 on Sunday after defensive breakdowns in the third period against the Chargers (3-10-1).Lake Superior State...