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...didn’t realize what a wart of a town Middlebury was until I searched it using Google Earth yesterday and discovered a pixelated blur. Sure, it only takes me 20 minutes to jog across town, and, of course, everyone here speaks in proverbs, but somehow I never quite fused the connection...
...revenue growth of 20% over the past five years, Hyundai has been the world's fastest-growing major automaker since 1999, according to Lehman Bros. Hyundai is "putting pressure on everybody," says Rob Hinchliffe, an auto analyst at UBS. Even Toyota vice chairman Fujio Cho last year acknowledged the blur that is getting bigger in his rearview mirror: "Hyundai has quality and prices that have caught customers' attention, not to mention ours...
...Time's story suggested the reason for the media's current problems: "Journalists strive to be influential." Members of the media who wish to influence public opinion should be writing essays and editorials; journalists who report news need to stick to the facts. Today's journalists seem to blur the distinction between news and opinion. Joseph K. Valaitis Brecksville, Ohio, U.S. White House spokesman Scott McClellan's call for Newsweek to "repair the damage" rang hollow. It's the White House that should repair the damage done to the U.S. by the war in Iraq. What about the suffering...
...TIME's story suggested the reason for the media's current problems: "Journalists strive to be influential." Members of the media who wish to influence public opinion should be writing essays and editorials; journalists who report news need to stick to the facts. Today's journalists seem to blur the distinction between news and opinion...
...follow-through from Andrew Lederman’s power-play blast turned the forward towards the stands of the Bright Hockey Center, where all he could see was the blur of hats and jackets and faces of fans packed into the red bleachers. He didn’t see his puck sail past Yale goaltender Josh Gartner, nor did he see it buried in the left side of the net. All he saw was the sudden movement of hordes of fans jumping to their feet, and all he heard was the roar of their shouts...