Word: guardians
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...lives or works in lower Manhattan brags about how close they are to Ground Zero. I live on Hudson Street, three blocks above Chambers Street - eight blocks from the northern hem of the World Trade Center complex. Or maybe we?re closer. In a recent interview in The Guardian, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein said that the explosions ?happened six blocks away from our offices in Tribeca.? Since the Miramax offices are three blocks north of us, perhaps we?re only three blocks away. (That Harvey, always crunching numbers...
...with tag lines such as "We must keep in mind, after seeing reports like this, that the Taliban regime in Afghanistan continues to harbour terrorists who have praised the September 11 attacks that killed close to 5,000 innocent people in the US." Or variants on that theme. The Guardian warned that the network may risk compromising its objectivity. But the network appears to be aware of the different standard that European viewers may apply. "Presenters on CNN International will not be subject to the edict," the paper notes...
...first medium without borders. At the moment, interest in foreign news is higher than it's been in memory, and more and more Americans are surfing the web for foreign news sources. According to a recent story on National Public Radio, the website of the UK's Guardian newspaper now has 500,000 regular American users...
...Tony Blair may be gung-ho about the war on terrorism, but his enthusiasm is not shared by his Labor Party's traditional media stronghold, The Guardian. In a commentary titled "A Grubby, Vengeful War" Madeleine Bunting warns of the impending humanitarian disaster. "You can't blow up fuel dumps, as the U.S. has done in Herat and Kabul, without crippling the distribution of aid. You can't bomb a country from high altitude without hitting depots and spreading fear amongst truck drivers and warehouse laborers? Aid is piling up in warehouses but not reaching the hungry stomachs that need...
...committed voice of her early essays. In an era when other critics see fit to cut loose and scribble nutty books about man-dog love affairs and ambiguously ribald real estate ads, such an oddly conservative sense of taste and purpose demands a closer examination. Sontag may be a guardian of culture’s good name, or she may be just a relic...