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...paper--and that can be laid at the feet of Carroll," says Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Even Richard Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor who had long complained of the paper's liberal bias, is a convert, won over by such coverage as the paper's evenhanded reporting on racial tensions at a hospital in South Los Angeles. "I think Carroll has done a sensational job," says Riordan, whose plans to set up a rival paper are now consigned to the back burner...
From Spanish Basques to Moroccan Muslims to--an Aloha, Ore., lawyer? The global probe into the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid homed in on suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid...
...were getting our shots, but we just couldn’t convert,” freshman attackman Greg Cohen said. “They had a big defense, and they were frustrating us with [their] hits. That made it tough to complete plays...
...brothers have been at odds before. When Jermaine left the Jacksons temporarily in 1975, Randy replaced him; years later, they had a tiff when Jermaine threatened to withdraw from a 2001 reunion concert. People close to the family see Randy as a more stabilizing influence than Jermaine, a Muslim convert who helped bring in members of the Nation of Islam as Michael's security. If nothing else, the change in attorneys overseen by Randy "will slow down" the legal proceedings, says one source. "That's not necessarily a bad thing...
...largest obstacles Ford faces is academic. Because it is difficult for him to read printed material, Ford needs books to be converted into digitally synthesized speech in order to study. Though Harvard is required to provide him with equal access in this area, his experience has been anything but easy. The only computer equipped to convert his books into speech sits in the Science Center, far from Ford’s home in Currier. Ford says he’d like to see stations installed in all libraries. But at Yale, his ideal system wouldn’t suffice: they...