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...Nieman Foundation for Journalism and its new curator certainly make strange bedfellows. For years, the foundation, one of the world's most distinguished institutions in its field, has sought to protect core journalistic values from the corporate grasp of media conglomerates. Former curator Bill Kovach, who left last summer, was much-admired for his outspoken stance against the disorienting influence of corporate control. In particular, Kovach and other distinguished critics have pointed out that such corporate influence has led to an increased fusion of entertainment, business and editorial content, as well as an increased reliance of facts gained through speculation...
...devoted hunters who gathered last week in Pierre, S.D., for the annual convention of the Varmint Hunters Association. A gregarious bunch whose activities included an ice-cream social and a karaoke contest--not to mention daily shooting matches--the varminters share a passion that few outsiders can grasp...
...true, this might explain everything. Gore's personality, difficult to grasp in American terms, seems perfectly coherent and natural if transplanted north of the 48th parallel. Indeed, as the Canadian Theorem settles into the imagination, one begins to wonder if there may have been some switched-at-birth scenario years ago that landed the infant Albert far south of the Canadian border, all the way down in Tennessee, while, at the same time, a tow-headed changeling from the chigger latitudes wound up in a snowbank in the Haliburton Highlands...
...design can even be the place where art and commerce both meet metaphysics. It is, after all, mostly by the sum of what designers produce that we understand ourselves to be living in a particular time. Nature is so slow to change that we can hardly grasp the flow of things. It is the world we manufacture that shows us how time passes. "Then" was when things looked that way. Now is when they look this way. Here are people making that way go this...
Unanimous E.U. approval of the controversial measure is unlikely, at least without substantial changes. But the important thing is that Europe is making the first attempt to grasp the nettle of taxing an increasingly intangible economy. It won't be the last. --By James Graff/Brussels