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PENN: No, I tell you what bothers me. I saw that part on television from my hotel room before I got there, and the problem was that this f__ing punk town that we work in, nobody in that f__ing place booed the dumb joke. Chris Rock's really funny and talented, and in a three-hour set you're allowed to make bad jokes, but the audience should respond. Instead, it's just a bunch of schadenfreude-ists sitting there wanting Jude's parts and looks...
...week's diplomatic roundelay was a heartening shift in the pattern of Middle East maneuvering, but will the renewed to-ing and fro-ing about peace yield concrete results? Not many diplomats were willing to venture a prediction. U.S. officials went only so far as to say that the Israeli nod toward an international forum for the peace process is "a substantive development." Said a U.S. official: "It means we can begin to talk seriously." --By George Russell. Reported by John Borrell/Cairo and Roland Flamini with Peres
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Your editorial “AP-ing the News” (Mar. 21) violates a basic journalistic principle: you erroneously take the Associated Press to task for violating a basic principle of our journalism without even bothering to call us for comment. Our new “optional lead” initiative to provide newspapers with an additional way to compete for readers is rooted in a basic tenet of AP journalism: impartiality. You equate different styles of writing a spot news story with changing the facts. Facts remain the same. Objective journalistic styles for writing facts are myriad...
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