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...feel that newspapers can save themselves. How about concentrating on purely local news instead of trying to reflect what readers saw on cable TV the day before? Publish local school lunch menus, city-hall doings and, yes, local police and court reports. Community papers are taking off and will fill the gap as the big dailies die off. As for coverage from Baghdad and Kabul, editors can rely on the Associated Press and other news organizations with respected reporters. Gang reporting wastes time and money. Frank Real, PALMER, MASS...
...Illinois A New Burris-Blago Brouhaha The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee and a local Illinois prosecutor have launched investigations into Senator Roland Burris' inconsistent descriptions of his contact with Rod Blagojevich before being tapped by the then governor to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat. Burris recently admitted attempting to raise money for Blagojevich months earlier--a fact he neglected to mention while testifying in Blago's January impeachment hearing. Though Burris has denied any wrongdoing, lawmakers of both parties have called for his resignation...
James L. Frazier, an assistant strength coach for University of Iowa football, will become the director of Harvard’s strength and conditioning program, Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise announced yesterday. Frazier, a 2006 graduate of Brown University, will fill a month-long vacancy created by the departure of former head strength coach Craig Fitzgerald for the University of South Carolina. The former Brown defensive end and linebacker will begin overseeing all 41 Crimson varsity programs on March 2. Frazier’s hiring comes at an opportune time for the Crimson. Fitzgerald’s January departure...
...McCarthys have set such an amazing example that, over the years, students are disappointed in being ‘rivered,’” he said, reversing a common student stigma against being placed in the far-away Quad. “We have big shoes to fill.”He added that he and his wife’s undergraduate experiences—his at Yale, and hers at the College—have demonstrated to the couple that “House life is crucial to the undergraduate experience.”Christakis, who said...
...This obsessive research is all part of Eichinger's technique: to fill in the blanks of events that have entered Germany's collective consciousness, but that few people have witnessed up close. Baader Meinhof is laced with exact replicas of iconic photographs that appeared in German newspapers at the time. But these are the after-the-fact images of dead bodies and devastated buildings. Eichinger provides the missing frames, reconstructing the violence leading up to those images to expose its brutality...