Word: betweeners
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James P. Rubin, chief spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, explained that there is a rift between the government and the press.
Rubin also blamed the 24-hour news cycle for the antagonism between media and government. Reporters now require government responses before officials have time to analyze events, he said.
"There is a genuinely adversarial relationship between the government and the media," Rubin said of the current state of affairs. "There is a notion among the press that those in the government are either incompetent or corrupt."
This is an area, he said, in which greater cooperation between the press and the government is needed.
In the end, she chose between Brown, Princeton, Penn and Harvard. A visit to Cambridge sealed the deal.