Word: bernsteins
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...raise objections to the Koran allegation. The Defense Department's silence, however, didn't amount to confirmation. "There's a famous scene in the book All the President's Men," says Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and former chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek. "Bernstein says to a source, 'If I count to whatever, and you stay on the phone and don't say anything, then I know the story is right.' Well, that's the story Woodward and Bernstein got wrong in Watergate...
...news organization that the State Department accuses of having a "clear pattern of false and inflammatory reporting" that endangers the lives of Americans, particularly U.S. personnel in Iraq. "There is no baggage heavier than anything that is related to 9/11," says Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York City. "Advertisers would be very careful in figuring out what the implications are to their product." Says Steve Tatham, author of a forthcoming book on Arab media reporting from Iraq: "People associate al-Jazeera with anti-Western sentiment." It doesn't help things that al-Jazeera...
...play the good cop in negotiations with GM's union, with the specter of a Kerkorian-led breakup in the background. GM can now go to the United Auto Workers and say "you can deal with nice Rick Wagoner or Gordon Gekko," says auto analyst Stephen Cheetham of Bernstein Research...
...Social Studies director Anya Bernstein says she “can’t imagine” that the changes will make a difference. “It’s really hard for me to imagine that a student who would have gotten into Harvard Law School as a magna is now going to be denied as a cum,” she says...
...sure how these changes will affect students’ choices about their academics. Fundamentally, though, the issue seems to be about risk, and how willing Harvard students will be to challenge themselves in the face of higher standards. Potentially, Bernstein says, the new system could discourage students from taking risks in hopes of earning honors. But by the same token, O’Keefe counters, students could feel liberated from expectations because honors will no longer be the norm...