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...politics, Murdoch also publishes the venerable Times and Sunday Times in London and the well-respected Australian, and he is part owner of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. While he has sold the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, he still owns the Boston Herald and the San Antonio Express-News. He has interests in ten book publishers, including Glasgow's William Collins & Sons and New York City's Harper & Row. His 20th Century Fox movie studio and six independent TV stations in the U.S. have served as the launching...
This was also the age of the "press lords", when publishers such as The Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, and Cissy Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald used their newspapers and their reporters to promote their personal political biases, particularly their profound hatred of Roosevelt, their opposition to the Lend-Lease program and their pro-Nazi sympathies...
...collapse the structure housing the store into a murderous heap of concrete and metal. Dozens of people were crushed or trapped in the rubble. One wall tumbled outward, killing a woman sitting in a car parked in front of the store. Anthony Padilla, a photographer for the Brownsville Herald, witnessed the scene from across the street. "The entire storefront, the windows just exploded out," he said. "People just covered their heads, kind of ducked down, and in the next instant the whole thing came down. People I had been looking at were covered with rubble...
...excommunication is Rome's final action against Lefebvre, who opposed the liberalizing policies of the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council and then set up his own seminary in Econe. An agreement worked out last month seemed to herald a reconciliation, but it collapsed three weeks ago. By going ahead with the ceremony, Lefebvre sought to perpetuate his 100,000-member renegade movement, since his newly consecrated bishops can in turn ordain their own priests. Dismissing his excommunication, the Archbishop declared, "I am a bishop of the Catholic Church who will continue to spread the faith...
...been remarkably free from personal scandal. He's held high-level posts with the potential for incredible corruption--he headed the CIA. But there is no public record of impropriety for him. Even rumors of an extra-marital affair involving Bush have come to nothing. Where's the Miami Herald when you need...