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...Setting the Record Straight ? Preying on Pilgrims The Feb. 20 "In the Arena" column referred to terrorist bombing attacks in the Iraqi city of Karbala that took place during Ashura, the Shi'ite day of mourning, killing 170 pilgrims in 2004 and 60 in 2005. There were no attacks in Karbala during Ashura in 2005, but there were 60 killings in other parts of Iraq...
With that in mind, we launch today a new feature: a bi-weekly editor’s column, where we will address various issues, questions, and concerns, on the level of both individual stories and broader coverage and policy. This space will allow us to explain to you, our readers, why we make the decisions we make—whether to print the name of a student arrested on drug charges, use an anonymous source, or to maintain a strict wall between our news reporting and opinion pages. And it will ensure that we operate with the transparency and accountability...
...fiction. I believe our industrious and assiduous reporters, backed by the paper’s 133-year legacy, ensure that most readers do pick up the paper each morning with a basic assumption of truth. But the peaceful slumbers of complacency are never far off, and I hope this column will provide us with a bi-weekly opportunity to recommit ourselves to the truth...
...This column is a message to you that we are listening, and that we care. We don’t expect you to agree with every decision we make, or every argument that will be made in this space on alternate Mondays. But we do want to communicate the logic behind our position, and more importantly to engage in a dialogue with you about these issues...
...Oscar for Refusal to Kiss Up goes to ANNIE PROULX, 70, on whose 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain was based. After Brokeback lost the Best Picture Oscar to Crash, Proulx wrote a vituperative column in the Guardian, attacking the winning film (which she refers to as Trash), Hollywood types ("somewhat dim"), the awards event ("reminiscent of a small-town talent show" with "an atmosphere of insufferable self-importance") and even innocent bystanders Three 6 Mafia ("an atrocious act"), who won the Oscar for Best Song. She also lays into the Academy ("conservative heffalumps"). Yep, she used the H word. This...