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...Michigan Daily - of which I am the editor-in-chief - doesn't cover the town [Aug. 17]. A quick glance at MichiganDaily.com would have revealed that the Daily does cover Ann Arbor politics and business along with its extensive coverage of the University of Michigan. We were, in fact, the only publication in the city to officially endorse candidates in recent city-council elections. The Daily may not be a new online operation promising to solve journalism's financial woes, but it has been a consistent and credible source of news in Ann Arbor for more than 119 years. Gary...
...fact that French private enterprise is surging in the middle of the world's worst economic crisis in 50 years is as surprising as its cause. The motor driving all that bustling start-up action is an innovation known as auto-entrepreneur, a government scheme introduced in January to help would-be bosses bypass the formidable process of founding a small business. The scheme cuts through the jungle of administrative red tape usually required to launch a company, and dramatically lightens the heavy taxes and social charges companies pay. While other firms face set charges whether business is booming...
...took just under two minutes for Caster Semenya to win gold in the women's 800-m race at the World Athletics Championship on Aug. 19, but it will be weeks before gender tests show whether the 18-year-old South African is in fact a woman. Preliminary results of the tests--ordered after her masculine physique and dramatically improved performances prompted complaints from other runners--showed Semenya had three times the level of testosterone of a typical woman. The sport's authorities are trying to determine whether she has a genetic condition that blurs her gender and gives...
Well, to me it's pretty obvious. The fact of the matter is, [tennis is] now pulling from a worldwide talent pool. We're probably the second biggest sport worldwide, and there's not really a country that's not involved in tennis right now. So with the growth of the game worldwide, the talent is going to be a lot more spread out. I think you're seeing that on a smaller scale with basketball. It used to just be, How much is the American team going to win by? Now the sport has grown so much that...
...People worry his work might be viewed as communist propaganda because they only look at the surface meaning," says Yi Sun Ju, an independent curator in Seoul. "In fact, most of the interest in his work comes from abroad or from South Koreans who have lived overseas...