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President Bush has habitually complained about "too much leaking in Washington," but it turns out he used his declassification power to combat attacks on the Administration's case for invading Iraq. Democrats call it a leak. The White House calls it a factual rebuttal. After several days of neither confirming nor denying testimony by ex--White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, officials close to Vice President Cheney said the President indeed declassified part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in 2003 but left the method of releasing it up to others. After a conversation with Cheney, Libby delivered...
...magazine’s Coke coverage. The staff “worked very hard to make sure we present a balanced approach to the issue,” said Kratsios, a junior at Princeton. “We worked very hard to make sure that the article was a factual article.” He added that news outlets like National Public Radio, though they have corporate sponsors, are still considered objective. Bob Giles, director of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, said it was possible for a publication to report on its sponsors, but that news...
...didn’t really like anything about his speech,” said Rami R. Sarafa ’07. “It was empty rhetoric with factual errors and dismissal of contradictions...
...very personal and painful for Harvard students who have had an abortion, or who are close to someone who has. There are many ways that Right to Life could distribute pro-life information in a way that is not harmful to these students. For example, by designing more factual, less propaganda-like types of posters, Right to Life could state their message without making fellow students uncomfortable. For students considering having an abortion, they could advertise resources or a hotline to provide students with information on other options. Free speech and activism for a cause are extremely important at Harvard...
Last year I had the pleasure of talking about the history of the American revolution with a small group of students visiting from Beijing University. I was impressed by their factual knowledge, but it was their questions that reaffirmed for me the value of the work that I and my colleagues try to do. The Chinese students wanted to know how ordinary people got their ideas about liberty. They were surprised when I told them that some of it came from religion. They wanted to know if I thought violent protest was also necessary. They pushed me hard...