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Today's meeting between the larger-than-life news mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, coupon-clipping owners of Dow Jones, has gripped the little world of journalists. "The rotten old bastard intends to charm them all with his lies," warned Slate media critic Jack Shafer. The idea that Murdoch might get his mitts on the Wall Street Journal has folks scandalized, as though Larry Flynt were buying the New York City Ballet...
...losing more than he thinks he's gaining. He's losing international recognition and he's losing the respect of his people.' MARCEL GRANIER, executive at RCTV, Venezuela's oldest private television station and a frequent critic of President Hugo Chávez, which went off the air on May 27 after Chávez refused to renew its license...
...York mayoral candidate, and he ultimately left the NYPD in part because Giuliani thought he was stealing the limelight by taking too much credit for the drop in crime.) He has cultivated good working relationships with many disparate and powerful elements in the city. He tapped longtime LAPD critic and civil rights lawyer Constance Rice to write a report on the Rampart scandal and to oversee compliance with her recommended reforms. He's also developed a friendship with the Police Commission President John Mack, who, as head of the L.A. Urban League, was long a thorn in LAPD's side...
...There's always a surprise film that wins a prize," French critic Michel Ciment said last night, "and a film that surprises by not winning." The unexpected winner, of the Grand Prix du Jury (second place), was Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, yet another parable of grieving and reconciliation. An old widower, institutionalized with dementia, is cared for by a woman who herself has lost her young son. (There were important deaths in every one of the winning films.) Determined to set the spirit of his dead wife free, the man sets out on a long quest through...
Seidel’s candidacy could also pose a challenge to freshman Councillor Craig A. Kelley, a frequent critic of both City Manager Robert W. Healy, Cambridge’s chief executive, and the other councillors. Kelley and Seidel share much of the same political base: middle-class, progressive voters concerned about education reform and environmental issues...