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...muzzled media coverage of the war. Most correspondents were barred from entering Gaza, and viewers of Israeli TV news were, for the most part, shown only the aerial ballet of fighter planes streaking through pillars of smoke rising from the bombs they had dropped. Yossi Sarid, a Ha'aretz columnist and former Meretz politician, says, "People only saw the sterile version of the war. I think they'll be shocked when they see the images coming out of Gaza once the reporters are allowed inside...
...rebelled against the idea that the Federal Government, egged on by "bug huggers," was telling them how to manage their neighborhood. "I like butterflies, especially when you catch them while they are still caterpillars. Deep fried and dipped in a little honey mustard sauce, they are delicious," quipped a columnist for the Daily News in nearby Alamogordo, admitting a particular fondness for those from Cloudcroft, which are "sort of spicy." Long-term negotiations to annex national-forest acreage for municipal use would be complicated by Endangered Species Act protection. "People are not happy," says former village trustee Gary Wood...
...news that the job posting had been sent over a Harvard e-mail list quickly made the rounds on celebrity blogs. Joanna Douglas, a columnist for a Yahoo.com entertainment Web site, questioned whether such a job calls for a Harvard diploma...
...paper has also dispatched general-assignment reporter Dan Richman to cover the story, with Andrea James pitching in. Richman declined to discuss his plans, though some of the columnists have not been so coy. The news "hit like a chunk of loose viaduct," wrote sports columnist Art Thiel. "I expected to react to this somber state of affairs by getting drunk, but I haven't," wrote fellow sports columnist Jim Moore. Editorial cartoonist David Horsey, who, as McCumber puts it, legally owns two Pulitzers, observed that owning a newspaper is "quite suddenly a sucker...
Called Zeitungszeugen - Newspaper Witnesses - the first issue of the series includes not only a reprint of Der Angriff - whose editor and most strident columnist was propaganda chief Josef Goebbels - but also the communist paper Der Kämpfer and the more moderate Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. The facsimiles are bound inside pages of commentary and analysis intended to give them context. British publisher and hobby historian Peter McGee has already launched similar projects in eight European countries, including Austria. Prominent historians, such as Hans Mommsen, a leading expert on the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, and Wolfgang Benz, head...